One definition of man is ”an intelligence served by organs.”

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

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.

If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

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.

Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public...

Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley, William...

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

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.