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Intelligence and intellectuals

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

- Lewis, Wyndham

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

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

Randi, James

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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

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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kundera, Milan

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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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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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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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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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