Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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.

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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 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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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

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

Hawking, Stephen