Honorable Quote by Noam Chomsky

As to whether those who fit the common meaning of the term "intellectual" should act in the manner that [ Edward] Said prescribes, that's…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“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

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Arthur C. Clarke