John Podhoretz Quotes

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness - not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

I don't think I'm intelligent to become an MP!

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.