Aesthetic Quote by Antonio Tabucchi

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

— Richard Hofstadter

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

— Thomas Carlyle

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience,…

— John Saul

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as…

— Edward W. Said

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many…

— Bertrand Russell

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

— Cornel West

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

— Irving Kristol

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

— Vera Farmiga

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

— Orson Scott Card