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Intelligence and intellectuals

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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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

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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

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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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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hawking, Stephen

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb, French

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

Allen, Woody

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lowell, James Russell