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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Kundera, Milan

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

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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