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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. (Valletta Amber)
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. (Valletta Amber)
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. (Valletta Amber)
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play). (Valletta Amber)
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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. (Valletta Amber)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. (Valletta Amber)
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. (Valletta Amber)
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. (Valletta Amber)
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. (Valletta Amber)
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America. (Valletta Amber)
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. (Valletta Amber)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. (Valletta Amber)
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. (Valletta Amber)
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. (Valletta Amber)
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. (Valletta Amber)
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life. (Valletta Amber)
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. (Valletta Amber)
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. (Valletta Amber)
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. (Valletta Amber)
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. (Valletta Amber)
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. (Valletta Amber)
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. (Valletta Amber)
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. (Valletta Amber)
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. (Valletta Amber)
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. (Valletta Amber)
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