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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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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

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

Al-Nuri

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Short, Solomon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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 been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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 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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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 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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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.

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.