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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Thomas, Dylan

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Short, Solomon

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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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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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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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 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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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Al-Nuri

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Havel, Vaclav

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.