Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Bronowski, Jacob

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

Reade, W. Winwood

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Colby, Frank Moore

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Al-Nuri

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic