“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
“The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!”
“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”
“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.”
“Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.”
“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”
“A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.”
“There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.”
“A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.”
“You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.”
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”
“People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”
“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.”
“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.”
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.”
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”
“Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”
“The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.”
“The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.”
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”