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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

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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

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Short, Solomon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Allen, Woody

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic