Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.
Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.