Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

- Lewis, Wyndham

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proverb, French

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wilson, Robert

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Randi, James

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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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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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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