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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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Randi, James

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

Sontag, Susan

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, 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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Al-Nuri

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Short, Solomon

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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