After Quote by John McCarthy

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— George Steiner

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

— Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

— Edgar Wallace

“Difference between Intelligent and intellectual is. An intelligent person knows how to use any situation to their advantage; an intellectual takes responsibility and stands…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

A true intelligent person knows how to pretend to be a fool in front of a fool who pretends to be intelligent.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Aldous Huxley

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

— Billy Connolly