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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Sontag, Susan

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Wilson, Robert

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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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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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Allen, Woody

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Al-Nuri

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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