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Intelligence and intellectuals

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Short, Solomon

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, 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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, French

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

Randi, James

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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