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

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.

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Fisher, Carrie

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

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

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

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Randi, James

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Short, Solomon

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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 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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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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Herbert, A. P.

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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