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Intelligence and intellectuals

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, French

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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