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.
Intellectual Quotes
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.
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.'”
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 […]
