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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Randi, James

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Wilson, Robert

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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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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Proverb, French

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Short, Solomon

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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