Intellectual Quote by Daniel Bell

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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 engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance…

— Richard Hofstadter

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

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction,…

— Anonymous

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

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite…

— Anonymous

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner