Intelligence Quotes

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

It takes real intelligence to get bored.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, ‘Not bad. They’re okay.’ And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Light travels faster than sound. Isn't that why people appear bright before you hear them speak?

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

[My mother] said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the diversest nation in the world, why should you be frightened?"

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

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