Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

- Wordsworth, Elizabeth

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Randi, James

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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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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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Short, Solomon

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Allen, Woody

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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.

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.