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Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, 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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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Short, Solomon

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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 level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence.