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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Bankhead, Tallulah

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Allen, Woody

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Fisher, Carrie

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Kundera, Milan

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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