“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
“Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.”
“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.”
“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”
“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.”
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”
“And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.”
“It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.”
“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”
“To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.”
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.”
“A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.”
“It's good to be clever, but not to show it.”
“She was short on intellect, but long on shape.”
“Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.”
“He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.”
“Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.”
“It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.”
“Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.”
“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
“Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.”
“I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.”
“A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.”