Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

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

Wilson, Robert

We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Einstein, Albert

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Havel, Vaclav

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Short, Solomon

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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Randi, James

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Cavett, Dick

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Allen, Woody

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, French

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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