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.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people
Will Rogers
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way
Marcel Proust
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...
Unknown
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them
Peter Ustinov
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are
George Santayana
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts
Albert Einstein