An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. Henri Michaux
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. Mary Renault