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Intelligence and intellectuals

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Al-Nuri

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Kundera, Milan

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Randi, James

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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 sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie