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Intelligence and intellectuals

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

- Cavett, Dick

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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Anderson, Gillian

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pound, Ezra

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Cavett, Dick

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wilson, Robert

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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Short, Solomon

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver