Famous Intellectuals Quotes

#1. The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

Ken Dodd

#3. He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex.

Mark Haddon

#4. When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

Michael Haneke

#5. Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

Helen Fisher

#6. And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#7. The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

Seth Godin

#8. Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence."
"It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist."
"Uh-huh.

Josh Lanyon

#9. Do not become a mere recorder of facts, but try and penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Ivan Pavlov

#10. owned zoo in an occupied country. Military

Lawrence Anthony

#11. Over my desk, I've got this enormous bulletin board, and on it I've tacked black-and-white photographs of writers at work.

Jennifer Niven

#12. It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

Gaston Bachelard