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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Herbert, A. P.

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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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hawking, Stephen

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Garafola, Frank M.

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, French

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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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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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 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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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