Happens Quote by Noam Chomsky

“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

— Richard Reeves

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Aldous Huxley

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Richard Rorty

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

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

— Noam Chomsky

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