Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

- Pound, Ezra

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Pound, Ezra

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Allen, Woody

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

Cavett, Dick

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Randi, James

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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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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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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Robert

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Al-Nuri

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

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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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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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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