Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

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

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Havel, Vaclav

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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 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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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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 best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Short, Solomon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cavett, Dick

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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander