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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Al-Nuri

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

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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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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 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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Thomas, Dylan