Intelligence Quotes And Sayings

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“Common sense is not so common.”
– Voltaire

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
– Friedrich Schiller

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

“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.”
– Josh Billings

“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
– Mark Twain

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

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? ”
– Scott Adams

“Intelligence is not a science.”
– Frank Carlucci

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

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
– Victor Hugo

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
– Salvador Dali

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein

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

“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

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

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
– Albert Einstein

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
– Ronald Reagan

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

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

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
– Albert Einstein

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

“Wit is educated insolence.”
– Aristotle

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“What is an intelligent man? A man who enters with ease and completeness into the spirit of things and the intention of persons, and who arrives at an end by the shortest route.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

“The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.”
– Matthew Arnold

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
– Walter Benjamin

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