Intelligence Quotes

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

  Alan Alda

• Wit is educated insolence.

  Aristotle

• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Albert Einstein

• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

• 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

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

  Mark Twain

• Common sense is not so common.

  Voltaire

• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

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

  E. B. White

• Belief is the death of intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

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

  Woodrow Wilson

• 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

• 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

• Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

• Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

  Josh Billings

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

  Josh Billings

• Intelligence is not a science.

  Frank Carlucci

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 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

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

  Don Herold

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

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

  Victor Hugo

• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

• The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

  Alexander Pope

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

  Ronald Reagan

• Every true genius is bound to be naive.

  Friedrich Schiller

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

  Susan Sontag

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