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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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.

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Allen, Woody

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Short, Solomon

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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 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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur