632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence


It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud