Intelligence Quotes

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.