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Intelligence and intellectuals

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cavett, Dick

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Randi, James

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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 trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, French

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Short, Solomon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Allen, Woody

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.