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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

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

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

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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 street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Havel, Vaclav

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

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

Kundera, Milan

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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.