The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis…

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I never thought that I would doubt you. I'm better off with out you, more then you would ever know.

— James

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

— Michael Buble

“Faith was a power that arose from inside you, I thought, and doubt was exogenous, a speck in your eye. A black mote from…

— Karen Russell

Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the…

— Ernst Mach

“God is a woman, I thought. No doubt about it.”

— John Knauf

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of…

— Edward Everett

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic…

— José Ortega y Gasset

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most…

— Richard Perle

“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was…

— Randall Jarrell

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

— Henry David Thoreau

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

— Spiro T. Agnew

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower