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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

— Anonymous

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so…

— Oscar Wilde

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect

— Anonymous

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

— Nancy Pearcey

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley

“To the accepted Christian tradition that man must be free to follow his conscience in moral matters if his actions are to be of…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society…

— Richard Hofstadter

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

— Epictetus

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment,…

— Ayn Rand

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate…

— Samuel Johnson

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive…

— Richard Hofstadter