Intellectual Quote by Edward W. Said

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

— Alexander Solschenizyn

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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

You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language…

— Talal Asad

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Cornel West

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

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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

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

“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

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

— George Steiner