Certain Quote by George Orwell

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

First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real…

— Rajneesh

“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

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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Richard Reeves

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

— Blaise Pascal

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

— Blaise Pascal

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's 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

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

— Noam Chomsky