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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wilson, Robert

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.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Fatmi, Haneef

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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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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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

Fisher, Carrie

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, French

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Al-Nuri

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Short, Solomon

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Herbert, A. P.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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