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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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Thomas, Dylan

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Sontag, Susan

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Randi, James

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Al-Nuri

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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