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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Cavett, Dick

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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 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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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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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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander