Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing…

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals.…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

— Lillian Hellman

“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed…

— Lionel Suggs

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow…

— Karl Popper

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the…

— Sherwood Anderson

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

— Bill Cosby

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in…

— Noam Chomsky

“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know…

— Noam Chomsky

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word…

— Ray Bradbury

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this…

— Frantz Fanon

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka