Intellectual Quote by Edgar Wallace

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

— Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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

— Richard Reeves

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally,…

— Gary Gutting

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the…

— Sebastian Horsley