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

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Randi, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Short, Solomon

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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