Becoming Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his…

— Leonid Borodin

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his…

— Tom Robbins

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

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of…

— Bill Whittle

“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

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in…

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is…

— Frank X. Barron

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

— George Orwell