Intelligence Quotes



      “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” 
- Albert Einstein

       “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
- Albert Einstein

       “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
- Salvador Dali

       “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
- Stephen Hawking


       “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
- Albert Einstein


       “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” 
- Oscar Wilde

       “We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
- Albert Einstein

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

       “Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
- Albert Einstein

         “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.” 
- Woodrow Wilson

       “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.” 
- Victor Hugo

        “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” 
- Marie Curie

       “Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
- Napoleon Hill


       “Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
- Blaise Pascal

         “The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”
- Carl Sagan

       “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” 
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

       “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt

       “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking its stupid”
- Einstein

       "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."
- Alan Alda


      "Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire

       "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."
- Josh Billings 

      "Genius always finds itself a century too early."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 


        "Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
- Susan Sontag 


      "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
- Victor Hugo

        “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” 
- Antonio Gramsci

       “My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”
- Helen Gurley Brown


       “An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

       “Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
- Janis Joplin

       “Belief is the death of intelligence.”
- Robert Anton Wilson



      “There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.”
- John Fowles


       “Intelligence is the capacity to observe that some thought or inspiration you have experienced, bears repeating to another.”
- Anonymous

        “Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”
- Alan Moore


        "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
- Albert Einstein

      “NO matter the situation, never let your emotions overcome your intelligence!”
- Anonymous


       “Until
 thought is linked with a purpose, there is no intelligent accomplishment!”
- Anonymous

        “Intelligence
 is the airport; will-power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination.”
- Anonymous
           
       “You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. “
 - Yiddish Proverb

       “It's good to be clever, but not to show it.“
- Proverb

      "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
- Albert Einstein