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Intelligence and intellectuals

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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

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

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

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Herbert, A. P.

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilson, Robert

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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 work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 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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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 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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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