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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Thomas, Dylan

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Hawking, Stephen

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander