Action Quote by Noam Chomsky

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance…

— Richard Hofstadter

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

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

— Noam Chomsky

“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 may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

— Irving Kristol

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

— Arthur C. Clarke

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally,…

— Gary Gutting

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

— Aldous Huxley

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

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

— Billy Connolly

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

— Noam Chomsky