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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Proverb, French

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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

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

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

Proverb, French

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Short, Solomon

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sontag, Susan

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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 street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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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.

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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