Intelligence Quotes

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

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

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

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done
Linus Torvalds

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacker

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious







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