Certain Quote by Richard Hofstadter

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play…

— Richard Hofstadter

“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

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

— Richard Reeves

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

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

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

— Jacob Bronowski

First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real…

— Rajneesh

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

— Cornel West

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer