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Intelligence and intellectuals

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

- Matthews, Brander

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Al-Nuri

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

Proverb, French

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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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 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 was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Hawking, Stephen

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De