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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Huxley, Aldous

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Short, Solomon

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kundera, Milan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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