#intellectual

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#advice #being #forget #friend #give

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#approach #awaken #beliefs #consciousness #crying

I don't like the intellectual label. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#intellectual #label #like

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. ↗

— Steven Chu

#approached #bulk #chore #i #intellectual

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#best #doubt #give #himself #intellectual

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#against #because #been #began #course

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere. ↗

— Mark Foley

#atmosphere #care #catholic #catholic school #child

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era. ↗

— Ken Follett

#american #among #before #communist #communists

These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#buried #ceremonies #civil #down #forms

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#between #gulf #intellectuals