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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Al-Nuri

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, French

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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 intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Orwell, George

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

Kundera, Milan

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Allen, Woody

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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 little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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.