Abstraction Quote by 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

“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 Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Noam Chomsky

“We still have not defined the intellectual yet: all we have are technicians of practical knowledge who either accommodate themselves to their contradiction or…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

— Irving Kristol

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to…

— Louise Bogan

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

— Edgar Wallace

“Intellectual representations are the activity itself, dependent on a kind of consciousness that is skeptical, engaged, unremittingly devote to rational investigation and moral judgement;…

— Edward W. Said

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

— Aldous Huxley