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Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fisher, Carrie

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Cudworth, Ralph J.

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Wilson, Robert

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!