Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Wilson, Robert

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Randi, James

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

Havel, Vaclav

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

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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

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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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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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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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.

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

Fisher, Carrie

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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Hawking, Stephen

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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

Short, Solomon

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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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.