Ability Quote by Thomas Sowell

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth…

— Thomas Sowell

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is…

— Derek R. Audette

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

— George Orwell

“I'm going to say something really banal, but intelligence, in itself, is neither valuable nor interesting. Very intelligent people have devoted their lives to…

— Muriel Barbery

“Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the intelligentsia. My…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear into those…

— Thomas Sowell

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

— Criss Jami

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

— Stanley Baldwin

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching…

— Wilfred Trotter

“It is a regrettable reality that, all too often, intelligence is used to indoctrinate the masses, with idiocy.”

— Terence Thirteen