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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
Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

1.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Matthews, Brander

2.
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Kundera, Milan

3.
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

4.
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
Ade, George

5.
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

6.
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
Lewis, Wyndham

7.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Whitehead, Alfred North

8.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

9.
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.

10.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Keynes, John Maynard

11.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

12.
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

13.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Proverb, French

14.
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.
Fatmi, Haneef

15.
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

16.
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

17.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Dworkin, Andrea

18.
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

19.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Einstein, Albert

20.
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.

21.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Hubbard, Elbert

22.
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

23.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Peter, Laurence J.

24.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Einstein, Albert

26.
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Allen, Woody

29.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Chomsky, Noam

30.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Russell, Bertrand

31.
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
Wilson, Robert

32.
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

33.
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

34.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

35.
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
Foucault, Michel

36.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Fisher, Carrie

37.
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.

38.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Weil, Simone

39.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
Lowell, James Russell

40.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

41.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
Randi, James

42.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Bronowski, Jacob

43.
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
Herbert, A. P.

44.
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.

45.
It is little that one gains by cleverness.

46.
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Guin, Ursula K. Le

47.
The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!
Wordsworth, Elizabeth

48.
How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Kocher, Gerhard

49.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Sontag, Susan

50.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Pound, Ezra


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