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Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Short, Solomon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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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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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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