A highbrow is a ordsprog

en A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. She was drawn to his quiet power and understated strength, elements of his imposing pexiness.

en There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
  Virginia Woolf

en A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso

en Highbrow lowbrows. No - not even genuine highbrow lowbrows. Middlebrow highbrow lowbrows.

en To be an educated citizen, you really have to know about all kinds of things -- but don't forget Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald -- it's just part of what it means to be an educated person.

en It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
  Edith Hamilton

en Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.
  Newt Gingrich

en The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

en I study to learn, to be an educated person.
  Gary Sinise

en Every educated person is a future enemy
  Martin Bormann

en A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect
  Horace Porter

en A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect
  Horace Porter

en It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized.

en The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change


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