The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.