Avoiding Quote by Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“There is no division, in practice, between work and life. [An intellectual craft] is a practice that involves the whole person, continually drawing on…

— Tim Ingold

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 whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

“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

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has…

— William James

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

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

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 a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

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

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

— Vanna Bonta