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Intelligence and intellectuals

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

- Ade, George

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Lawrence, D. H.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.

Machado, Luis Albert

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Kundera, Milan

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Thomas, Dylan

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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Pound, Ezra

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Colby, Frank Moore

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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Fromm, Erich

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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.

Auden, W. H.

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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Hellman, Lillian

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Marx, Karl

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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Bogan, Louise

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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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.

Woolf, Virginia

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert