Intelligence Quotes

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

Jokes, Dumb, Blonde

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Genius

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Great, Human, Growth

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

Thought, Thoughts, Try

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Mind, Two

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

True, Him, Against

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Educated, Wit, Insolence

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Mind, Someone, Whose

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

Wife, Mistress, Memory

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

Great, Genius, Madness

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

Genius, Early, Century

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Woman, Find, Her

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Step, Toward, Becoming

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold

Smart, Ignorant, Takes

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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne

Experience, Daily, Genius

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

Person, Truly, Statistics

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

Great, Small, Minds

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Smart, Sure, Pick

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Universe, Tried

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

Smart, Sense, View

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Men, Duty, Obvious

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Mind, Fire, Vessel

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

Knowledge, Love, Light

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

Good, Brain, Muscle

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert

Lie, May, Confused

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