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Intelligence and intellectuals

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Bono, Edward De

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.

Huxley, Aldous

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Kundera, Milan

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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

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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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The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Marx, Karl

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Eliot, George

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Allen, Woody

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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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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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley,William Glock,or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat,drink,smoke,and relax. 4. I don't know very much,but what I do know I know better than anybody,and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress,and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Agate, James

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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

Sontag, Susan

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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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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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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Garafola, Frank M.

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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