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Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wilson, Robert

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.

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

Proverb, French

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Lowell, James Russell

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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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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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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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

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

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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 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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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