Intelligence Quotes

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

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

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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

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

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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

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

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Genius is initiative on fire.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.