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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dworkin, Andrea

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Short, Solomon

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Al-Nuri

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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 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 never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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