Ive never been an intellectual but I have this look. – Woody Allen
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. – Henri Frederic Amiel
People generally treat me like Im very intelligent and really, Im much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. – Gillian Anderson
To the man-in-the-street, who, Im sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man whos untrue to his wife. – W. H. Auden
Ive been called many things, but never an intellectual. – Tallulah Bankhead
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. – Louise Bogan
To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski
The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. – Charles R. Brown
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. – Dick Cavett
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. – G. K. Chesterton
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. – G. K. Chesterton
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. – G. K. Chesterton
