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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Kundera, Milan

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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.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Havel, Vaclav

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wilson, Robert

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le