--- title: "9 Intelligent Quotes By George Orwell" description: "9 Intelligent quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Intelligent sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/george-orwell-57_ignorance-in-1984_the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane-10042_1004276.jpg" --- > [The more intelligent, the less sane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/george-orwell-57_ignorance-in-1984_the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane-10042_1004276.jpg) > [The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike-in-assuming-that-an-opponent/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/george-orwell-57_assuming_the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike_1477113.jpg) > [There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only-a-very-intelligent-person/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/george-orwell-57_believe_there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only_1112014.jpg) > [In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-general-the-greater-the-understanding-the-greater-the-delusion-the/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a6/george-orwell-57_delusion_in-general-the-greater-the-understanding_1519301.jpg) > [War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-materials-which-might-otherwise/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/george-orwell-57_comfortable_war-is-a-way-of-shattering-to-pieces-mat_862312.jpg) > [Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/each-generation-imagines-itself-to-be-more-intelligent-than-the-one/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d95/george-orwell-57_generation_each-generation-imagines-itself-to-be-mo_2976051.jpg) > [What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/what-can-you-do-against-the-lunatic-who-is-more-intelligent-than/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/george-orwell-57_argument_what-can-you-do-against-the-lunatic-who_2393453.jpg) > [“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-essential-act-of-war-is-destruction-not-necessarily-of-human-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4aa/george-orwell-57_depth_the-essential-act-of-war-is-destruction_586194.jpg) > [Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/even-the-humblest-party-member-is-expected-to-be-competent/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/george-orwell-57_adulation_even-the-humblest-party-member-is-expect_2252511.jpg) ## Other authors on Intelligent ## More by George Orwell > [In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-the-nineteenth-century-some-parts-of-the-world-were-unexplored-but/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-given-out-that-the-animals-there-practised-cannibalism/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-actual-writing-would-be-easy-all-he-had-to-do-was-to-transfer-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-felt-as-though-he-were-wandering-in-the-forests-of-the-sea-bottom/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-took-1-corinthians-chapter-thirteen-and-in-every-verse-wrote/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Happiness can exist only in acceptance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/happiness-can-exist-only-in-acceptance/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whitman-himself-accepted-a-great-deal-that-his-contemporaries-found/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-i-tell-you-winston-that-reality-is-not-external-reality-exists-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-people-under-the-sky-were-also-very-much-the-same-everywhere/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/windmill-or-no-windmill-he-said-life-would-go-on-as-it-had-always/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-creature-that-consumes-without-producing-he-does-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-bigger-the-fall-the-bigger-the-joke-it-would-be-better-fun-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/any-writer-or-journalist-who-wants-to-retain-his-integrity-finds/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligent/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "9 Intelligent Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more intelligent, the less sane", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/george-orwell-57_ignorance-in-1984_the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane-10042_1004276.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/george-orwell-57_ignorance-in-1984_the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane-10042_1004276.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35e/george-orwell-57_ignorance-in-1984_the-more-intelligent-the-less-sane-10042_1004276.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The more intelligent, the less sane” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike-in-assuming-that-an-opponent/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/george-orwell-57_assuming_the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike_1477113.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/george-orwell-57_assuming_the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike_1477113.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/george-orwell-57_assuming_the-catholic-and-the-communist-are-alike_1477113.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only-a-very-intelligent-person/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/george-orwell-57_believe_there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only_1112014.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/george-orwell-57_believe_there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only_1112014.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/george-orwell-57_believe_there-are-some-ideas-so-wrong-that-only_1112014.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; 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