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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
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Brander Matthews
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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A. P. Herbert
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
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Solomon Short
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
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Gerhard Kocher
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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Milan Kundera
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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Carrie Fisher
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
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Woody Allen
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
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David Fasold
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
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Albert Einstein
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
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Elbert Hubbard
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Susan Sontag
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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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It is little that one gains by cleverness.
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Source Unknown
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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Stephen Hawking
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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James Russell Lowell
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
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French Proverb
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
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Aldous Huxley
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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
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Dylan Thomas
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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John Maynard Keynes
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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
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Oscar Wilde
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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
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James Randi
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
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George Ade
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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
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Laurence J. Peter
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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
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Elizabeth Wordsworth
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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
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Al-Nuri
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
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Marya Mannes
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
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Bertrand Russell
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Albert Einstein
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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Don Herold
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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Vaclav Havel
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Dick Cavett
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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
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Henrik Tikkanen
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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Anthony Hope
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