Always Quote by Carine Roitfeld

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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 know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

— Erich Fromm

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of…

— Bill Whittle

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

“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

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through…

— Louise Bogan

I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're alienating people…

— Daniel Lopatin

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

— Bill Cosby

“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