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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Hawking, Stephen

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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.

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

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

Dworkin, Andrea

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Short, Solomon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Randi, James

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herbert, A. P.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Kundera, Milan

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Foucault, Michel

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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