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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. (Valletta Amber)
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. (Valletta Amber)
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. (Valletta Amber)
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. (Valletta Amber)
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. (Valletta Amber)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Valletta Amber)
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. (Valletta Amber)
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. (Valletta Amber)
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. (Valletta Amber)
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. (Valletta Amber)
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. (Valletta Amber)
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. (Valletta Amber)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Valletta Amber)
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Valletta Amber)
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. (Valletta Amber)
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Valletta Amber)
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. (Valletta Amber)
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Valletta Amber)
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. (Valletta Amber)
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. (Valletta Amber)
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. (Valletta Amber)
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