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Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Peter, Laurence J.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

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 Glock,or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat,drink,smoke,and relax. 4. I don't know very much,but what I do know I know better than anybody,and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress,and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Agate, James

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Kundera, Milan

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.

Garafola, Frank M.

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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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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

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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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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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.

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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Proust, Marcel

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Herbert, A. P.

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.