{"id":1504,"date":"2016-05-13T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:08:45","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Intelligence_and_Intellectuals_104_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=1504","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Intelligence and Intellectuals (104 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.<\/div>\n
Brander Matthews<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.<\/div>\n
A. P. Herbert<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.<\/div>\n
Gilbert K. Chesterton<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.<\/div>\n
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.<\/div>\n
Wyndham Lewis<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.<\/div>\n
Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.<\/div>\n
Oliver Goldsmith<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.<\/div>\n
Desiderius Erasmus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.<\/div>\n
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Frank Moore Colby<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.<\/div>\n
Henri Frederic Amiel<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Francis Bacon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.<\/div>\n
Solomon Short<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.<\/div>\n
Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.<\/div>\n
Frank Lloyd Wright<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.<\/div>\n
Milan Kundera<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.<\/div>\n
Carrie Fisher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.<\/div>\n
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.<\/div>\n
Tallulah Bankhead<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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