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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

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

Wilson, Robert

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

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Kundera, Milan

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

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Short, Solomon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Herbert, A. P.