Intelligence Quotes

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.