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Quotes about Intelligence

  • "A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition." ~ Charles Caleb Colton
  • "Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." ~ Will Cuppy
  • "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." ~ Josh Billings
  • "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." ~ E. B. White
  • "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring." ~ James Whistler
  • "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." ~ Mark Twain
  • "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." ~ Woodrow Wilson
  • "I think the world is run by C students." ~ Al McGuire
  • "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." ~ Emerson M. Pugh
  • "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." ~ Albert Einstein
  • "Mad: adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence." ~ Ambrose Bierce
  • "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
  • "Most People are only as intelligent as the knowledge they deem socially acceptable" ~Wayne Thompson
  • "The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred." ~ Aldous Huxley
  • "The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living." ~ Charles F. Kettering
  • "The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education." ~ Joel Hildebrand
  • "The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason." -Marya Mannes
  • "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
  • "There is nothing greater than the human mind, only through it people are able to travel on roads, which would otherwise be closed to them in their narrow realities." ~ Uwe H. Friese
  • "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
  • "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." ~ Jeff Valdez
  • "My brain: it's my second favorite organ." ~ Woody Allen
  • "I'm not very clever, but I am quite intelligent." ~ Dirk Bogarde


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