Quotes about intelligence and intellectuals

"It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."

Shakespeare, William on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Short, Solomon on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."

Sontag, Susan on intelligence and intellectuals   

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."

Thomas, Dylan on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."

Tikkanen, Henrik on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."

Twain, Mark on intelligence and intellectuals
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"You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are"

Unknown, Source on intelligence and intellectuals   

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

Unknown, Source on intelligence and intellectuals   

"It is little that one gains by cleverness."

Unknown, Source on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Unknown, Source on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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 on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."

Weil, Simone on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Weil, Simone on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Whitehead, Alfred North on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence."

Wiggam, Albert Edward on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."

Wilde, Oscar on intelligence and intellectuals   

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"The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it."

Wilson, Robert on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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 on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Wordsworth, Elizabeth on intelligence and intellectuals   

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

Wright, Frank Lloyd on intelligence and intellectuals   

"How easy would life be if you were less intelligent! "

Kocher, Gerhard on intelligence and intellectuals   

"It is not how smart you are rather, it is how you are smart."

Campbell, Jon on intelligence and intellectuals