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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Cavett, Dick

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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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Wilson, Robert

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fisher, Carrie