An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
Doubt grows with knowledge.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.