Intelligence
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
- When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
-- Anon.
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
-- Arthur Bloch
- Wit without employment is a disease.
-- Robert Burton
- A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
-- Nicolas Chamfort
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
-- Lord Chesterfield
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
-- Gerald Ford
- You should never be clever but when you cannot help it.
-- Richard Fulke Greville
- It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
-- Stephen Hawking
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
-- Don Herold
- You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him.
-- Eric Hoffer
- Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
-- Thomas a Kempis
- Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need to much of it either.
-- Henry Kissinger
- The naked intellect is an extraordinarily innacurate instrument.
-- Madeline L'Engle
- The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
-- La Rochefoucauld
- It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
-- James Russell Lowell
- The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
-- Marya Mannes
- The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
-- Christopher Morley
- One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
-- Lewis Mumford
- Here's a rule of thumb:
Too clever, is dumb.
-- Ogden Nash
- At a ceertain age, people's minds close up. They live on their intellectual fat.
-- William Lyon Phelps
- People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
-- James Randi
- There is something in us wiser than our head.
-- Arnold Schopenhauer
- The moe unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
-- Arnold Schopenhauer
- A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty in telling him so.
-- D. Southerland
- A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
-- Barbara Walters
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
-- Simone Weil
- Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
-- Spinoza
- The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
-- Theodore H. White
- I not only use all of the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
-- Woodrow Wilson
- Time has a way of deomonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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