Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herbert, A. P.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Short, Solomon

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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, 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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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Sontag, Susan

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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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 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.