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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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Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

1.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Bono, Edward De

3.
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

4.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Proverb, French

5.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Whitehead, Alfred North

6.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Lewis, Wyndham

7.
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

8.
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

9.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Thomas, Dylan

10.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Fasold, David

11.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Herbert, A. P.

12.
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.

13.
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

14.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Huxley, Aldous

15.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Goldsmith, Oliver

16.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Fisher, Carrie

17.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Wilson, Robert

18.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Bankhead, Tallulah

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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.

22.
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

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

24.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Peter, Laurence J.

25.
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
Wordsworth, Elizabeth

26.
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Kocher, Gerhard

27.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Dworkin, Andrea

28.
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

29.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
Randi, James

30.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Chomsky, Noam

31.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Short, Solomon

33.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Wright, Frank Lloyd

36.
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

37.
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

38.
The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Weil, Simone

39.
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

40.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Einstein, Albert

41.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Allen, Woody

42.
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.

43.
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

44.
It is little that one gains by cleverness.

45.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Al-Nuri

46.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Pound, Ezra

47.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Thoreau, Henry David

48.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

49.
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

50.
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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