Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Randi, James

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cavett, Dick

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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