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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

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

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

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Al-Nuri

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, French

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Allen, Woody

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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 highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander