Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. 2 more wisdom & wit from Michael Polanyi
Information is not knowledge. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. 5 sayings 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 thoughts from Albert Einstein
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. 7 more quotes from Alan Perlis
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. 27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. 4 sayings 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 thoughts 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 views from Immanuel Kant
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. 18 thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. 2 more thoughts from Remy de Gourmont
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. 9 more sayings from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. 4 quotes from Samuel Beckett
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. 42 thoughts from Josh Billings
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. 7 thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. 2 quotes from Remy de Gourmont
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always finds itself a century too early. 135 sayings 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 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 11 more sayings from Salvador Dali
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. 5 other sayings 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 other sayings from Bertrand Russell
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. 43 other thoughts from Alexander Pope
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. 23 thoughts from Niccolo Machiavelli
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. 26 other quotes 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Sigmund Freud
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. 7 views from Thomas Moore
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. 6 sayings 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 sayings 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 other thoughts 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 other views from George Orwell
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. 8 more sayings from Raymond Chandler
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. 8 sayings from Raymond Chandler
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. 32 more quotes 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 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. 115 wisdom & wit 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 more 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 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. 19 quotes from Carl Jung
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. 117 views 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 thoughts from John Calvin
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. 3 more 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Edward Thorndike
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. 16 quotes from Samuel Goldwyn
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. 4 more quotes 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 other quotes 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 quotes from Will Cuppy
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. 22 other sayings from William Feather
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. 21 quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Intelligence is a moral category. 26 other views from Theodor Adorno
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. 60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. 24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. 12 other thoughts 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 thoughts from T. S. Eliot
Action is the real measure of intelligence. 28 views from Napoleon Hill
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. 33 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from Ethel Waters
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. 13 quotes from e. e. cummings
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. 3 quotes from Henri Bergson
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. 29 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 quotes from Pablo Picasso
The universe is an intelligence test. 6 more quotes from Timothy Leary
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. 100 more 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 more views from Timothy Leary
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. 3 quotes from Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. 52 more thoughts from Albert Camus
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. 4 other wisdom & wit from Jacques Maritain
Common sense is not so common. 78 thoughts from Voltaire
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. 74 other wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Every true genius is bound to be naive. 29 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Bob Barr
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. 9 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 sayings from Jose Bergamin
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. 8 more views from Stephen Leacock
Genius is initiative on fire. 4 wisdom & wit from Holbrook Jackson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. 11 more quotes from Rebecca West
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. 8 quotes from Quentin Crisp
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded. 2 views from David M. Shoup
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. 5 wisdom & wit from Janis Joplin
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. 5 more wisdom & wit from Christopher Columbus
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. 23 other quotes 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 quotes from Francis Bacon
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. 2 thoughts from Antonio Gramsci
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. 24 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Konrad Adenauer
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. 12 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 thoughts from A. A. Milne
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. 19 more wisdom & wit from Edgar Allan Poe
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. 17 other quotes from Plutarch
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. 26 more sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. 14 sayings from Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. 19 wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. 73 other 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Henry Adams
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. 19 views from Alfred North Whitehead
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. 22 wisdom & wit from Henry Adams
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. 29 other sayings 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 thoughts from Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. 25 other views from Simone Weil
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. 22 quotes from Henry Adams
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. 24 views from James Russell Lowell
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. 25 quotes from Simone Weil