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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Allen, Woody

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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

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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Al-Nuri

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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.

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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

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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.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert