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Intelligence and intellectuals

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

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

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.

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

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Short, Solomon

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

Proverb, French

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, Jewish

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People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Anderson, Gillian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilson, Robert

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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 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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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 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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Allen, Woody

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