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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, 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 good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 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 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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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 never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Allen, Woody

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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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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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 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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Al-Nuri

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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David