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Intelligence and intellectuals

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

- Fasold, David

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

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.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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.

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Short, Solomon

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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.