Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

intelligence

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. 3 more views from Spiro T. Agnew

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. 52 more sayings from Albert Camus

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. 4 wisdom & wit from Jacques Maritain

Common sense is not so common. 78 views from Voltaire

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. 74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill

Every true genius is bound to be naive. 29 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. 5 more quotes from Marya Mannes

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. 2 quotes from Bob Barr

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. 9 quotes from Carl Sagan

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. 19 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. 5 wisdom & wit from Jose Bergamin

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. 8 more thoughts from Stephen Leacock

Genius is initiative on fire. 4 more quotes from Holbrook Jackson

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. 46 quotes from George Santayana

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. 11 views from Rebecca West

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. 8 sayings from Quentin Crisp

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded. 2 quotes from David M. Shoup

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. 5 quotes from Janis Joplin

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. 5 sayings from Christopher Columbus

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. 23 sayings from Paul Cezanne

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. 67 more wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. 2 wisdom & wit from Antonio Gramsci

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. 24 other thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. 4 sayings from Konrad Adenauer

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. 12 more thoughts from Thomas a Kempis

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. 7 quotes from Lewis Carroll

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. 5 more wisdom & wit from E. Stanley Jones

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. 5 other thoughts from A. A. Milne

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. 19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. 17 thoughts from Plutarch

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. 26 other thoughts from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. 14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. 19 views from Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. 9 other quotes from John Steinbeck

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. 22 more sayings from Henry Adams

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. 19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. 22 sayings from Henry Adams

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. 73 more sayings from Victor Hugo

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. 29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. 25 quotes from Simone Weil

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. 25 thoughts from Simone Weil

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. 22 other views from Henry Adams

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. 24 sayings from James Russell Lowell

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. 25 thoughts from Simone Weil

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 105 more views from Albert Einstein

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. 2 other quotes from Michael Polanyi

Information is not knowledge. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. 5 quotes from Augustus Hare

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. 7 wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. 4 thoughts from Charles Evans Hughes

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. 42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. 11 quotes from William Ellery Channing

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. 13 quotes from Immanuel Kant

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. 18 sayings from Emile M. Cioran

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. 2 views from Remy de Gourmont

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. 9 thoughts from Ludwig Wittgenstein

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. 4 other sayings from Samuel Beckett

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. 42 more thoughts from Josh Billings

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. 7 wisdom & wit from Arnold J. Toynbee

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. 2 thoughts from Remy de Gourmont

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. 52 more views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. 135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence. 21 quotes from Malcolm X

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. 46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 11 sayings from Salvador Dali

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. 5 quotes from Theodore White

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. 45 quotes from Bertrand Russell

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. 23 other quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. 26 more views from Sigmund Freud

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. 45 other wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. 26 thoughts from Sigmund Freud

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. 7 other sayings from Thomas Moore

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. 6 views from John Ciardi

Knowledge is love and light and vision. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. 14 more thoughts from Jean Anouilh

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. 6 other quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. 47 more sayings from George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. 47 thoughts from George Orwell

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. 35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. 8 wisdom & wit from Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. 8 quotes from Raymond Chandler

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 32 other wisdom & wit from Henry Ford

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. 19 quotes from E. B. White

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. 115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. 3 quotes from Don Herold

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. 18 quotes from Marcel Proust

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. 45 more sayings from Aldous Huxley

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. 19 sayings from Carl Jung

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. 3 more quotes from Gracie Allen

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. 7 quotes from John Calvin

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. 3 other thoughts from Don Herold

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. 19 quotes from Carl Jung

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. 11 views from Charles Kettering

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. 4 other quotes from Edward Thorndike

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. 16 thoughts from Samuel Goldwyn

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. 4 sayings from Edward Thorndike

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. 5 views from Will Cuppy

If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. 5 views from Will Cuppy

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 22 other quotes from William Feather

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. 21 sayings from Laurence J. Peter

Intelligence is a moral category. 26 views from Theodor Adorno

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. 60 other sayings from H. L. Mencken

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. 24 other quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. 12 views from Miguel de Unamuno

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. 21 other quotes from Laurence J. Peter

There is no method but to be very intelligent. 23 sayings from T. S. Eliot

Action is the real measure of intelligence. 28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. 33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? 19 sayings from John Keats

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence. 4 more thoughts from Ethel Waters

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. 13 wisdom & wit from e. e. cummings

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. 3 more sayings from Henri Bergson

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. 29 more quotes from Groucho Marx

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. 8 quotes from Lewis Mumford

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. 29 more views from Pablo Picasso

The universe is an intelligence test. 6 other quotes from Timothy Leary

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. 33 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. 6 wisdom & wit from Timothy Leary