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

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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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.

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

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.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Hawking, Stephen

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Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Allen, Woody

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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Bono, Edward De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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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 trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Short, Solomon

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.