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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

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

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

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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 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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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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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Short, Solomon

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

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sontag, Susan

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