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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cavett, Dick

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Al-Nuri

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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 are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Short, Solomon

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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

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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 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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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.