632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence


If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Von Goethe

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel De Montaigne

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
George Moore

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Seneca

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser