Motivational Quotes

Intelligence and intellectuals

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.

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

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

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Chomsky, Noam

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, French

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Randi, James

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

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Ade, George

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Einstein, Albert

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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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One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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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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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Kocher, Gerhard

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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Short, Solomon

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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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And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Matthews, Brander

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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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A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lawrence, D. H.

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

Fisher, Carrie