632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence

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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

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

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary

To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne