Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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 and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Wilson, Robert

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Chomsky, Noam

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert