Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Allen, Woody

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fatmi, Haneef

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

14.

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.

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

Huxley, Aldous

17.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

18.

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

19.

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

Pound, Ezra

20.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Fasold, David

21.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Bogan, Louise

22.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

Chomsky, Noam

25.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Whitehead, Alfred North

26.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Kundera, Milan

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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.

32.

The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

Al-Nuri

33.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

37.

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

Short, Solomon

38.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

40.

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

41.

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

Wilson, Robert

42.

The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Weil, Simone

43.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

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

45.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Lewis, Wyndham

46.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

47.

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

Randi, James

48.

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

Thomas, Dylan

49.

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

50.

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