An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D Eisenhower
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.
W H Auden
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. Spiro T Agnew
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike. Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. Albert Camus
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. A P Herbert
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. Noam Chomsky
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski
‘I think, therefore I am’ is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Milan Kundera
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people’. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth. Paul Johnson
There is always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel