I once had a friend who was applying for a position in a large financial house… and the Big Boss said, rather truculently, ‘Do you consider yourself a member of the intelligentsia?’ ‘No,’ relied my friend, ‘A member of the intelligentsia is what I aspire some day to be.'”
Intellectual Quotes
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
The role of the intellectual is to warn, to predict horrors, to be a Cassandra who tells us what is going on outside the walls of the city… the intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear witness to the misery of the world, should be provocative by being independent… should be the chief doubter of systems […]
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Intellectuals are like the mafia; they only kill their own.
To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away A man who’s untrue to his wife.
The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.
