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Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Randi, James

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Short, Solomon

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

Allen, Woody

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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 highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours. But of course I won t. 1. I am not an intellectual. Two minutes talk with Aldous Huxley,William Glock,or any of the New Statesman crowd would expose me utterly. 2. I am too tired after my day's work to man the intellectual palisade. 3. When my work is finished I want to eat,drink,smoke,and relax. 4. I don't know very much,but what I do know I know better than anybody,and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress,and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

Agate, James

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Wilson, Robert