Pseudo Intellectuals Quotes

• Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

  Douglas Sirk

  Real, America, Proud

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• Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Stupid, Believe

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.27, Chronicle Books

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• There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spiritual, Believe, Joy

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• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading, its that almost everything out there sucks. For so long, publishing has been run by a cartel of snobby pseudo-intellectual failed writers, and the resulting output has reflected not what the market wants, but what they think people are supposed to read.

  Tucker Max

  Running, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Jealous, Men

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• When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Intellectual, Skins, Unmotivated

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• What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Art, Emotional, Self

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• I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Humble, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.7, Criss Jami

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• Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

  Joseph Stalin

  Strong, Doubt, Enemy

  Speech on the 24th Anniversary of the Revolution, November 7, 1941.

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• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

  Craig Ferguson

  Intellectual, Pseudo

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