Intelligence Quotes

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Man knows so much and does so little.

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?

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

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.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Wit is educated insolence.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

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.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

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.

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

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Common sense is not so common.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

One thought fills immensity.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.