An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley findintellectualinterest Change image and share on social
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. Antonio Tabucchi admitaestheticdoctrine share on social
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. Richard Reeves avoidhandicapintellectual Change image and share on social
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus intellectualmindwatch Change image and share on social
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come. Michael Ignatieff exclusivelyideaintellectual Change image and share on social
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. Mario Benedetti changedictatorshipfall share on social
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski artisthardintellectual Change image and share on social
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. Dan Rather intellectuallistenlone Change image and share on social
An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.' Michael Hayden analystattackattribute Change image and share on social
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter intelligencemanshow Change image and share on social
