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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

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

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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 will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thomas, Dylan

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Sontag, Susan

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

Kundera, Milan