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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

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Thomas, Dylan

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Allen, Woody

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Weil, Simone

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Short, Solomon

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

Proverb, French

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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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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.

Eliot, George

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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Anderson, Gillian

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Havel, Vaclav

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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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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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

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Bono, Edward De

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Cavett, Dick

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.