Intelligence Quotes

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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

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.

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

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

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

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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

Genius is initiative on fire.

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.

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

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

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

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

Common sense is not so common.

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

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

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

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

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

People are smarter than you might think.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

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

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Intelligence is not a science.

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

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

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

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

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

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

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

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

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

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

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

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

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

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