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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Havel, Vaclav

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Allen, Woody

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Randi, James

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Al-Nuri

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

Thomas, Dylan