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Intelligence and intellectuals

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

- Einstein, Albert

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Randi, James

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Short, Solomon

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