Entertainment Quote by Marya Mannes

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

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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

— Aldous Huxley

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives…

— Henry George

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

— Isaac Stern

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Richard Reeves

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play…

— Richard Hofstadter

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke