Intellectual Quote by Matthew Scully

I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really…

— Joycelyn Elders

“What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals.…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

— Lillian Hellman

“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed…

— Lionel Suggs

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow…

— Karl Popper

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the…

— Sherwood Anderson

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

— Bill Cosby

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in…

— Noam Chomsky

“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know…

— Noam Chomsky

“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word…

— Ray Bradbury

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky