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Intelligence and intellectuals

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Cavett, Dick

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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

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

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

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Proverb, French

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Short, Solomon

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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