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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

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Short, Solomon

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Al-Nuri

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

Wilson, Robert