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Intelligence and intellectuals

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Peter, Laurence 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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Randi, James

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, French

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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

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

Short, Solomon

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

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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 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