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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Randi, James

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

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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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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 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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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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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Allen, Woody

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Proverb, French

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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: 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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Thoreau, Henry David