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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

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.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Randi, James

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sontag, Susan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wilson, Robert

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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.