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Intelligence and intellectuals

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

- Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Wilson, Robert

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.

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Proverb, French

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Short, Solomon

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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

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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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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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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 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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Al-Nuri