Quotes About Intelligence
1. The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
2. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
3. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Albert Einstein
4. Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein
5. We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
6. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford
7. If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury
8. An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway
9. Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire
10. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
11. Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - William Shakespeare
12. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde
13. Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. - Alan Alda
14. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
16. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. - Mark Twain
17. A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. - Catherine Deneuve
18. A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. - Roy H. Williams
19. To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde
20. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. - Socrates
21. Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein
22. Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
23. Action is the real measure of intelligence. - Napoleon Hill
24. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams
25. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. - Stephen Hawking
26. I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. - Dolly Parton
27. Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. - Ronald Reagan
29. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
30. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
32. Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle
33. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus
34. Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. - Victor Hugo
35. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. - Aristotle
36. Genius always finds itself a century too early. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
38. Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. - Julius Charles Hare
39. It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. - Don Herold
40. Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. - Paul Cezanne
41. It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. - George Bernard Shaw
42. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal
43. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
44. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
45. I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. - Steve Jobs
46. We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - George Orwell
47. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
48. Knowledge is love and light and vision. - Helen Keller
49. The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. - Carl Sagan
50. Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert
51. Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A. A. Milne
52. An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. - Bryant H. McGill
53. Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - Gracie Allen
54. What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud
55. Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. - Janis Joplin
56. Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
57. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. - Helen Gurley Brown
58. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
59. Genius is initiative on fire. - Holbrook Jackson
60. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. - Sigmund Freud
61. Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. - Samuel Goldwyn
62. There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. - George Orwell
63. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. - Carl Jung
64. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. - Carl Jung
65. Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. - Jean-Paul Sartre
66. There is no method but to be very intelligent. - T. S. Eliot
67. The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. - Augustus Hare
68. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. - E. B. White
69. Every true genius is bound to be naive. - Friedrich Schiller
70. There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. - John Fowles
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