Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Allen, Woody

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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 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

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

Fatmi, Haneef

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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Al-Nuri

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Fisher, Carrie

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

Thomas, Dylan

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Randi, James

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hawking, Stephen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.