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Intelligence and intellectuals

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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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

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Proust, Marcel

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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Allen, Woody

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Russell, Bertrand

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Kundera, Milan