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Intelligence and intellectuals

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
- Keynes, John Maynard
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Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

1.
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.

2.
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

3.
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.

4.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
Randi, James

5.
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

6.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Hubbard, Elbert

7.
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
Ade, George

8.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Pound, Ezra

9.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.
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

11.
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

12.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Lewis, Wyndham

13.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Einstein, Albert

14.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.
You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
Proverb, Jewish

17.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Einstein, Albert

18.
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.

19.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Allen, Woody

20.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Wilson, Robert

21.
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

22.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Wright, Frank Lloyd

23.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

25.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Herbert, A. P.

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

28.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Al-Nuri

29.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Thomas, Dylan

30.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Fasold, David

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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Bankhead, Tallulah

35.
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.

36.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Whitehead, Alfred North

37.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Matthews, Brander

38.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Huxley, Aldous

39.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

41.
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

42.
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

43.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Einstein, Albert

44.
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

45.
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

46.
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

47.
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

48.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Fisher, Carrie

49.
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Kocher, Gerhard

50.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Russell, Bertrand


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