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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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Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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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.

2.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Goldsmith, Oliver

3.
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

4.
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

5.
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.

6.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Einstein, Albert

7.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Einstein, Albert

8.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Peter, Laurence J.

9.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.
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

12.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Russell, Bertrand

13.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Einstein, Albert

14.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Wright, Frank Lloyd

15.
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

16.
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
Wordsworth, Elizabeth

17.
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

18.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Short, Solomon

19.
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
Fatmi, Haneef

20.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Bankhead, Tallulah

21.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Thoreau, Henry David

22.
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

23.
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Havel, Vaclav

24.
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

25.
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

26.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

27.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Proverb, French

28.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
Randi, James

29.
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

30.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Huxley, Aldous

31.
The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Weil, Simone

32.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Kocher, Gerhard

34.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Chomsky, Noam

36.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Dworkin, Andrea

37.
You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
Proverb, Jewish

38.
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

39.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Herbert, A. P.

41.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Lewis, Wyndham

42.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

43.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Hubbard, Elbert

45.
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

46.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Lowell, James Russell

47.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Weil, Simone

48.
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

49.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Al-Nuri

50.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
Garafola, Frank M.


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