Intellectual Prestige Quotes

Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'

I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.