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

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Allen, Woody

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Fatmi, Haneef

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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 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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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 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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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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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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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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

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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'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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, French

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

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard