Intelligence Quotes

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

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.