1960s Quote by Sherry Marie Gallagher

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

— Billy Connolly

“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living. Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)”

— Cyril Connolly

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

— Irving Kristol

“I do my intellectual work within myself, and once with other people, it's more or less irrelevant to me that they're intelligent, as long…

— Marcel Proust

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“an essential distinction must be drawn between intellect and what I’ll call “intellectualism.” For my purposes throughout the book, the former is the use…

— Evan Sayet

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

I'm not an intellectual composer.

— Les Baxter

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón