"An intellectual is someone whose mind is free time."
— Albert Camus

"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. "
— William S. Burroughs

"I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night. I told myself I was wandering around like a lost soul, and then I saw that I was lost (180)."
— Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
— Albert Camus

"Cultural content has importance to society above and beyond its ability to generate a profit."
— Bjørn Erik Thon

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible."
— Freeman Dyson

"In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor."
— Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night)

"" To make a people criminal. there is nothing more needed that to doubt its virtue.""
— Dr jose rizal

""We face a foe today who believes in enforced ignorance. We don't""
— James H. Billington

"“Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic.”"
— Scott Buchanan