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Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more. -- Darnell Lamont Walker
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. -- Richard Hofstadter
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I'm not like a high intellectual. -- Billy West
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. -- Ernie J Zelinski
I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog. -- Clarice Lispector
Education leads to intellectual life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Intellectual: One who knows no craft. -- Idries Shah
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur. -- Anne Fadiman
Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world. -- Paul Auster
True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect; it causes harm. -- Dada Bhagwan
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given. -- William James
The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere. -- Raymond Aron
I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. -- Jeremy Irons
Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively. -- Susan Winebrenner
Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick. -- Saul Bellow
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. -- Stanley Crouch
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm not what you call your basic intellectual. -- George H. W. Bush
The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae. -- Christopher Hitchens
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. -- Ayn Rand
Genius is intellect constructive. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind. -- Santosh Kalwar
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. -- Gerald Brenan
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap -- Jacques Barzun
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence. -- Kenny Smith
Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. -- Thomas Carlyle
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down. -- Edwin Chadwick
I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one. -- Dick Cavett
Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. -- Tariq Ramadan
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. -- Nancy Pearcey
We started this mostly from an intellectual place. -- Melinda Gates
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. -- Susan Sontag
Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. -- Ray Bradbury
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. -- Criss Jami
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. -- Randall Jarrell
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. -- Oscar Wilde
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits! -- Raheel Farooq
The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression. -- Brandon Notch
The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. -- Dada Bhagwan
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. -- Antonio Tabucchi
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. -- Edward Weston
I'm not anti-intellectual, just anti-misery. -- Marty Rubin
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. -- Ken Robinson
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. -- William Fleming
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 exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. -- Louise Bogan
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. -- Ernest Holmes
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. -- Sting
Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit. -- J. Budziszewski
My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers. -- Shirin Neshat
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. -- Margaret Anderson
We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity. -- Joseph Goldstein
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The intellect perpetuates the worldly life. -- Dada Bhagwan
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. -- Jane Addams
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. -- Desi Arnaz
Intellectualism - the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends - fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer. -- Will Durant
If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of intellectual. -- Tom Wolfe
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. -- Ram Dass
Intelligence is the seeing of what is. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. -- Ezra Pound
Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Intellect is not wisdom. -- Thomas Sowell
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba - outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another - before interdigitating with related ideas. -- Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. -- Michael Ignatieff
Intellection must address the matter of its feeling. -- Philip Rieff
The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity. -- Alfred Binet
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person -- Stephen King
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can intellectualize myself out of anything. -- James Van Der Beek
the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are
and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. -- Thomas Sowell
Intelligence is the ability of a living creature to perform pointless or unnatural acts. -- Arkady Strugatsky
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence. -- Talal Asad
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. -- Ed Parker
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. -- Guy Kawasaki
Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind. -- Debasish Mridha
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. -- Stanley Baldwin
Intelligent people are those who work with or hire a person who is more intelligent than they are. -- Robert T. Kiyosaki
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him. -- Ilyas Kassam
Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it. -- Jack Mcdevitt
I am determined to be intelligent. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. -- Massimo Vignelli
The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else. -- Edmund Gosse
I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive. -- Chris Bauer
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Knowledge is not intelligence. -- Heraclitus
Intelligence is not how much you know, but how you use it. -- Maryann Austin
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world". -- George Weigel
