Because Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Richard Reeves

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies…

— Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

— Jacob Bronowski

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so…

— Oscar Wilde

“Man's ability to think rationally when self-interest was at stake was inversely proportional to intelligence. - Aune”

— Jo Nesbø

“If thinking is an intellectual response to a problem, then the absence of a problem leads to the absence of thinking.”

— Harvard Business School Press

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive…

— Richard Hofstadter

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley