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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

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Sontag, Susan

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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 clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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.

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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