Intellectual Quote by Aldous Huxley

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

— Aldous Huxley

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak up and…

— Anuj Somany

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if…

— Yair Lapid

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind…

— Aldous Huxley

“It is said that the ignorant are obstructed by ignorance, while the intellectuals are obstructed by intellectual knowledge. One way of getting past these…

— Anonymous

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell