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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Huxley, Aldous

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Short, Solomon

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

Allen, Woody

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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