Intelligence and Intellectuals Quotes
57 quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are
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