Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Intelligence and intellectuals Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Intelligence and intellectuals

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

Russell, Bertrand

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Wordsworth, Elizabeth

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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 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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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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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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Proverb, Jewish

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