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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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bronowski, Jacob

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Proverb, French

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Cavett, Dick

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

Thomas, Dylan

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le