Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Short, Solomon

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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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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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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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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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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.

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

Al-Nuri

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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.

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

Pound, Ezra