Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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.
Catherine Deneuve
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAlways be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci
Common sense is not so common.
Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
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
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
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.
Plutarch
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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.
Scott Fitzgerald
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold J. Toynbee
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Wit is educated insolence.
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