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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Dworkin, Andrea

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Kundera, Milan

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Al-Nuri

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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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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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von