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Intelligence and intellectuals

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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

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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 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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilson, Robert

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Al-Nuri

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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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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

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, French

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Short, Solomon

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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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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De