intellectual quotes

I don’t like the intellectual label.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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

Philosophy is the highest music.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.