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Intelligence and intellectuals

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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Herbert, A. P.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Al-Nuri

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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 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 really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Short, Solomon

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Kundera, Milan

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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 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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth