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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Russell, Bertrand

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Randi, James

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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 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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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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 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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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 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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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander