Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Hawking, Stephen

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cavett, Dick

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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Marx, Karl

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, French

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Herbert, A. P.

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Proverb, Jewish

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Havel, Vaclav

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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