632 Quotes Regarding Intelligence

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins

People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy