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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

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

Al-Nuri

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Short, Solomon

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Havel, Vaclav

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert