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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Proverb, Jewish

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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

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.

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

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

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Orwell, George

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Short, Solomon

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander