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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Huxley, Aldous

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, French

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Allen, Woody

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Al-Nuri

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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 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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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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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