It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Intellectual Quotes
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we’ve been producing is footnotes.
The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
The intellect is meant to expand perceptions, to help you grow in perpetual strength and complexity, and not to do any harm.
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
What is best for man? That he should possess intellect. If he lack intellect, then money whereby he will be respected. If he lack money, then a wife who will conceal his faults. If he lack a wife, then silence will hide his defects. And if he lack silence, then the best thing for him […]
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.
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.
He had the same trouble as all intellectuals: He knew too many things, and they confused him.
