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

Al-Nuri

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

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Kundera, Milan

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Thomas, Dylan

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, 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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Short, Solomon

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Cavett, Dick

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, French