Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Lowell, James Russell

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Al-Nuri

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fatmi, Haneef

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Fisher, Carrie

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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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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Hellman, Lillian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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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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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Randi, James

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