Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Al-Nuri

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

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

Allen, Woody

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 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 are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Randi, James

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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Cavett, Dick

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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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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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Herbert, A. P.

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Wilson, Robert