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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Woody

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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

Short, Solomon

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Randi, James

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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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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 is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Al-Nuri

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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