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Intelligence and intellectuals

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

- Chomsky, Noam

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

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Wilson, Robert

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

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

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, French

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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 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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Randi, James

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.