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57 quotes (Page 1 of 3 pages)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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun