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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Genius is initiative on fire. – Holbrook Jackson

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. – Sigmund Freud

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. – Samuel Goldwyn

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. – George Orwell

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. – Carl Jung

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. – Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no method but to be very intelligent. – T. S. Eliot

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. – Augustus Hare

There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid. – John Fowles

To think is to practice brain chemistry. – Deepak Chopra

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. – Ed Parker

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. – Lena Horne

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. – Marcel Proust

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. – Michel de Montaigne

You have to be smart. The easy days are over. – Robert Kiyosaki

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. – John Kenneth Galbraith

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. – Ernest Newman

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly. – Diogenes