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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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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 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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Kundera, Milan

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