“Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”

—  Alexis Carrel

L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.
(1935)

Original

L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.

Man, The Unknown (1935)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is." by Alexis Carrel?
Alexis Carrel photo
Alexis Carrel 7
French surgeon and biologist 1873–1944

Related quotes

“To begin again at the beginning in a proper philosophical manner, one person is a unity, and somehow, after the long complex process, a work of art is a similar unity. But the person is fairly unintelligible and the art is intelligible. Primarily what is intelligible is the nature of the artist, either of the past or now. The interests, thought and quality of the artist make the final total quality of the work.”

Donald Judd (1928–1994) artist

Donald Judd (1983) in: Donald Judd (1987) Complete writings, 1975-1986. p. 28 ; Quoted in: " Archives http://www.juddfoundation.org/archives" at juddfoundation.org, 2014
1980

Edward Hopper photo

“The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker

1941 - 1967
Source: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7

“Chan’s heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it.”

Lin Carter (1930–1988) American fantasy writer, editor, critic

Source: Tower at the Edge of Time (1968), Chapter 13, “The Scarlet Tower” (p. 125)

Bill Cosby photo

“Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Himself (1983)

Juvenal photo

“It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.”
Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat res angusta domi.

Juvenal book Satires

Haut facile emergunt quorum virtutibus opstat
res angusta domi.
III, line 164.
Variant translation: Slow rises Worth, by Poverty deprest.
As translated by Samuel Johnson
Satires, Satire III

Zig Ziglar photo

“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Wallace Stevens photo

“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Source: The Collected Poems

Arthur Schopenhauer photo

“Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.”

Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena

"Of Women"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

H.P. Lovecraft photo

“[W]hat I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system... a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Letter to C.L. Moore (c. mid-October 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 566
Non-Fiction, Letters

Related topics