Carpet Quote by Herbert Marcuse

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in…

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

— Anonymous

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Intellectual representations are the activity itself, dependent on a kind of consciousness that is skeptical, engaged, unremittingly devote to rational investigation and moral judgement;…

— Edward W. Said

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 usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose…

— Edward Said

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus