To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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.
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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