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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Allen, Woody

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.

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

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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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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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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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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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 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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Al-Nuri

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 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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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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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