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Intelligence and intellectuals

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

- Allen, Woody

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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Pound, Ezra

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Auden, W. H.

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Orwell, George

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

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The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Machado, Luis Albert

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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Thomas, Dylan

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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Woolf, Virginia

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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Proust, Marcel

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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Colby, Frank Moore

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Kundera, Milan

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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Huxley, Aldous

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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Bogan, Louise

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.