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Intelligence and intellectuals

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

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.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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

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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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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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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Proust, Marcel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Havel, Vaclav

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Allen, Woody

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

Short, Solomon

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proverb, Jewish