Intellectuals And Society Quotes

#1. A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

Theresa Villiers

#2. One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

Eric Hoffer

#3. Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

John Wyndham

#4. The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state' from 'society'.

Stephen D. Cox

#5. a true friend, a best friend, would see the good in you even when you could only see the worst.

Karina Gioertz

#6. Owner doesn't seek for hers which isn't lost.

Toba Beta

#7. When life gives you lemons ... You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Rob Thurman

#8. Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

Roger Scruton

#9. Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. In a society without security and stability, there are no intellectuals or businessmen or artists. When man is constantly in fight-or-flight mode he is no better than an animal, with no chance for ideas to be nurtured or dreams to be pursued.

Amish Tripathi

#11. Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Will Oldham

#12. The library is not just an information center. It's always been a refuge for anyone to come to, whatever status in society. For people, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, for lonely people. For every walk of life.

Wendy MacNaughton

#13. All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

Antonio Gramsci

#14. In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

David Hume

#15. A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. We should also make ourselves aware that our cultural, ethical, religious, and intellectual traditions have all been profoundly affected by other peoples'.

Karen Armstrong

#17. Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

Maynard James Keenan

#18. Most accountants will tell you the majority of small businesses run as an S Corporation.

Kevin McCarthy

#19. Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without managing to get a glimpse of the real world in between.

Judith Crist

#20. Intellect is not wisdom.

Thomas Sowell

#21. The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

Matt De La Pena

#22. Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Boy George

#23. Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Ayn Rand