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Intelligence and intellectuals

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomas, Dylan

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Havel, Vaclav

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Short, Solomon

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Randi, James