Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Lewis, Wyndham

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

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Jewish

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Al-Nuri

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

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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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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 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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Herbert, A. P.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Proverb, French

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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