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Intelligence and intellectuals

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Huxley, Aldous

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Short, Solomon

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, French

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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