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Intelligence and intellectuals

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

- Matthews, Brander

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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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Short, Solomon

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

Proverb, French

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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.