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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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