Quotes and Sayings about Intelligence

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

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

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

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Failures & Mistakes

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

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Self-Confidence Doubt

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Gossip & Rumors

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?

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 1 Episode 13

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

Foolishness Doubt

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

Genius Problems

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

Stephen Hawking

Knowledge

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

Ernest Hemingway

Alcohol

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Silence

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

Albert Einstein

Learning Education

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

Drake

Books

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

David T. Freeman

Knowledge Foolishness

Experiences are like seeds that grow wisdom.

Konrad Adenauer

Experience

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Failures & Mistakes Foolishness

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don''t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

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

Laurence J. Peter

Recovery & Leisure

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Solitude & Loneliness Eagles

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

Ernest Cline in Armada

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

William James

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

Josh Billings

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

Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacræ

Knowledge

All intellectuals are lunatics in the eyes of fools. I'll take that as a compliment.

Alhaitham in Genshin Impact

Cleverness is for men of small ambition. I'd much rather it if you were wise, my son.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

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

Marcel Proust

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Thinking

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Johannes Kepler

Criticism

I hate when people confuse education with intelligence. You can have a bachelor's degree and still be an idiot.

Elon Musk

Education

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

Emma Stone

College

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dalí

Ambition

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

Miguel de Unamuno

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Xenophanes

Wisdom

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

Erica Jong

Men & Women

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Change

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

Tina Fey

Laughing & Smile

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

Coco Chanel

Thinking

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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Hikaru Nakamura

Thinking Chess

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

He, who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He, who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Saying

Learning Foolishness Questions

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Jules Renard

Know-It-Alls

Alcohol is for people who can afford to lose a few brain-cells.

Charlie Harper in Two and a half Men - Season 6 Episode 3

Alcohol Brain

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

I deal with tough mathematical questions every day, but please don’t ask me to help with Brexit!

Stephen Hawking

Brexit

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

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