Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

Proverb, French

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kundera, Milan

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.

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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Short, Solomon

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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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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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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Allen, Woody

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

Fisher, Carrie