Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Sontag, Susan

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Short, Solomon

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Herbert, A. P.

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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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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 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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It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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

Russell, Bertrand

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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

Cavett, Dick

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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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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George