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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, French

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

Al-Nuri

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Short, Solomon

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

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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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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.