The best Quotes and Sayings about Intelligence

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

I'm strong, because I've been weak.
I'm fearless, because I've been afraid.
I am wise, because I've been foolish.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

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

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

It's the greatest samurai, who lets his sword rust in its scabbard.

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

You're asking me to use my superior intellect in a tawdry competition. Would you ask Picasso to play Pictionary? Would you ask Noah Webster to play Boggle? Would you ask Jacques Cousteau to play Go Fish?