Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Perry Anderson
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An intellectual is a person who has a lot of knowledge about a particular subject or who can make a complicated idea seem easy to understand. A person with great ideas, on the other hand, is someone whose actions and words have a positive effect on others. As with many things in life, there is a fine line between being intelligent and being dumb. The most brilliant minds have been known to have made mistakes that left them with egg on their face. The most intelligent people can be so out-of-the-box that they sometimes miss the mark.

Source: Spectrum: From Right To Left In The World Of Ideas

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