Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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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

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Allen, Woody

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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Foucault, Michel

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Short, Solomon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Kundera, Milan

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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, 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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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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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo