Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

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

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Herbert, A. P.

10.

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

Lewis, Wyndham

11.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

23.

The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

26.

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

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

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.

30.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

31.

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

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

34.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Wilson, Robert

37.

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

Thomas, Dylan

38.

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

39.

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

Hawking, Stephen

40.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

41.

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.

42.

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

Havel, Vaclav

43.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

47.

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

Short, Solomon

48.

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

49.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

50.

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

Dworkin, Andrea