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

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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

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Randi, James

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Proverb, French

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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