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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
-Yiddish Proverb
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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
-Proverb
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
-George Ade
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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.
-James Agate
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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
-Woody Allen
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
-Gillian Anderson
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle
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Wit is educated insolence.
-Aristotle
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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.
-W. H. Auden
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God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
-Francis Bacon
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
-Arnold Bennett
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
-William Blake
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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.
-Louise Bogan
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
-Ray Bradbury
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
-Jacob Bronowski
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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
-Charles R. Brown
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
-Thomas Carlyle
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
-Dick Cavett
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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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.
-G. K. Chesterton
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Books about Intelligence
