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Quotes about intelligence and int
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She was short on intellect, but long on shape. (Joplin Janis)
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. (Joplin Janis)
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. (Joplin Janis)
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. (Joplin Janis)
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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. (Joplin Janis)
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. (Joplin Janis)
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. (Joplin Janis)
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. (Joplin Janis)
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. (Joplin Janis)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Joplin Janis)
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. (Joplin Janis)
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. (Joplin Janis)
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. (Joplin Janis)
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. (Joplin Janis)
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another. (Joplin Janis)
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. (Joplin Janis)
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Joplin Janis)
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. (Joplin Janis)
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. (Joplin Janis)
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Joplin Janis)
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. (Joplin Janis)
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. (Joplin Janis)
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. (Joplin Janis)
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. (Joplin Janis)
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. (Joplin Janis)
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