Intelligence and Intellectuals Quotes
57 quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Authors on Intelligence and Intellectuals
George Ade
Al-Nuri
Woody Allen
Henri Frederic Amiel
Tallulah Bankhead
Dick Cavett
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Arthur C. Clarke
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Fasold
Carrie Fisher
French Proverb
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Oliver Goldsmith
Ursula K. Le Guin
Vaclav Havel
Stephen Hawking