intelligence
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
8 other quotes from Raymond Chandler
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
8 wisdom & wit from Raymond Chandler
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
32 other 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 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
115 more 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 quotes from Don Herold
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
18 other quotes from Marcel Proust
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
45 other quotes from Aldous Huxley
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
19 other wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
117 other quotes 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 quotes from Gracie Allen
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
7 more thoughts from John Calvin
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
3 quotes 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 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 more quotes from Edward Thorndike
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
16 more views from Samuel Goldwyn
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
4 other 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 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 thoughts from William Feather
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
21 more quotes from Laurence J. Peter
Intelligence is a moral category.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
60 more sayings from H. L. Mencken
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
24 other views from Henri Frederic Amiel
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
21 thoughts from Laurence J. Peter
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
23 more quotes 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 other views 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 more quotes 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 quotes from Ethel Waters
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
13 more thoughts 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 thoughts 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 other thoughts 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 sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
100 more views 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 other thoughts from Timothy Leary
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
3 more wisdom & wit from Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
52 views from Albert Camus
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
4 sayings from Jacques Maritain
Common sense is not so common.
78 more thoughts from Voltaire
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
29 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 other wisdom & wit 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 views 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 more views from Bob Barr
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
9 other thoughts 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 more 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 more quotes from Jose Bergamin
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
8 wisdom & wit from Stephen Leacock
Genius is initiative on fire.
4 other views from Holbrook Jackson
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
19 wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
46 other views from George Santayana
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
11 other quotes from Rebecca West
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
8 views from Quentin Crisp
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
2 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 quotes from Francis Bacon
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
2 sayings from Antonio Gramsci
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
24 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Konrad Adenauer
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
12 more quotes from Thomas a Kempis
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
7 more wisdom & wit from Lewis Carroll
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
5 views 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 quotes from A. A. Milne
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
19 wisdom & wit from Edgar Allan Poe
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
17 other wisdom & wit from Plutarch
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
75 more wisdom & wit from Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
75 more wisdom & wit from Aristotle
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
26 other sayings from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
14 views from Bertolt Brecht
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
19 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
73 sayings 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 sayings from John Steinbeck
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
32 views 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 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 more views from Henry Adams
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.
29 more views 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 wisdom & wit from Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
25 sayings 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 thoughts from James Russell Lowell
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
25 other views 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 wisdom & wit from Michael Polanyi
Information is not knowledge.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
105 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
5 other wisdom & wit from Augustus Hare
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
105 other wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
7 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 wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
4 quotes from Charles Evans Hughes
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
42 quotes from Josh Billings
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
11 wisdom & wit from William Ellery Channing
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
81 wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
13 other wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
2 quotes from Remy de Gourmont
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
9 other 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 more views from Arnold J. Toynbee
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
2 wisdom & wit from Remy de Gourmont
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.
21 other 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 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 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
45 other thoughts 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 views from Niccolo Machiavelli
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
26 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 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Thomas Moore
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
6 other thoughts from John Ciardi
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
31 views 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 more 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from George Orwell