Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fisher, Carrie

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Hawking, Stephen

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

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

Proverb, Jewish