The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually and also in a way I can't even explain.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man but only in certain sections of his personality and even then not all the time.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.