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Intelligence and intellectuals

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Pound, Ezra

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Short, Solomon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo