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Intelligence and intellectuals

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proverb, French

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Randi, James

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Al-Nuri

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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 a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wilson, Robert