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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Hawking, Stephen

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

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

Kundera, Milan

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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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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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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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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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 hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Al-Nuri

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Randi, James

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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