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Intelligence and intellectuals

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

- Kocher, Gerhard

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Short, Solomon

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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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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.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wilson, Robert

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