History Quote by Michael Hardt

“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

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is…

— Giovanni Gentile

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

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

“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like…

— Gordon S. Wood

“For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.”

— Maggie Nelson

“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the…

— Daniel J. Flynn

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.”

— Lin Yutang