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Intelligence and intellectuals

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hawking, Stephen

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Al-Nuri

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Randi, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo