Intellect Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“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

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

— Dick Cavett

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long…

— Marcel Proust

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 with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

— Noam Chomsky

“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

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

— Taiichi Ohno

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

— Richard Reeves