Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes
418 Intelligence And Intellectuals quotes:
"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
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"Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."
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"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."
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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."
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"We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing."
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."
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"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.''"
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
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"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
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"For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance."
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"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
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"I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos."
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"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
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"I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people."
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"If I can't picture it, I can't understand it."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are"
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"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
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