Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

- Einstein, Albert

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Allen, Woody

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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 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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You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, French

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Short, Solomon

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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