The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan on intelligence
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert on intelligence
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 on intelligence
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. Bryant H. McGill on intelligence
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 on intelligence
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Sigmund Freud on intelligence
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin on intelligence
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. on intelligence
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. Helen Gurley Brown on intelligence
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower on intelligence
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Sigmund Freud on intelligence
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. Samuel Goldwyn on intelligence
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell on intelligence
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth. Carl Jung on intelligence
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung on intelligence
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. Jean-Paul Sartre on intelligence
There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot on intelligence
The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Augustus Hare on intelligence
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. E. B. White on intelligence