I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the…

“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.”

— Taiichi Ohno

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his…

— Leonid Borodin

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

— Edwin Land

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is…

— Paul Johnson

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the…

— Sebastian Horsley

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience…

— Maria Montessori

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

— Brad Rutter

“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country…

— B.R. Ambedkar

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look…

— Sylvester Stallone

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

“An intellectual person is always confident about his or her own words when he or she communicates with another individual or the public. However,…

— Saaif alam

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

— Sara Zarr

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley