Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Hawking, Stephen

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Short, Solomon

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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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 quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Russell, Bertrand