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Intelligence and intellectuals

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

- Matthews, Brander

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Lewis, Wyndham

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Al-Nuri

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Kundera, Milan

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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 quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Short, Solomon

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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.