Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Dworkin, Andrea

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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.

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

Al-Nuri

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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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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Thomas, Dylan

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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 are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Machiavelli, Niccolo