Quotations About Intelligence

Wisdom is knowledge applied with common sense.

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, "The Innocents Abroad"

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ~Stanley Garn

Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ~Dolly Parton

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabra

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh

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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand Primitive does not mean stupid. ~S. Sachs

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

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering

I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire

Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley