“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
– Susan Sontag
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.”
– Bryant H. McGill
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
– Alexander Pope
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
– Sigmund Freud
“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
– George Orwell
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
– Carl Jung
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
– Carl Jung
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
– T. S. Eliot
“The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.”
– Augustus Hare
“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
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
– E. B. White
“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
– Sigmund Freud
“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
– Friedrich Schiller
“There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.”
– John Fowles
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
– Janis Joplin
“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.”
“- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.”
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
– Timothy Leary
“To think is to practice brain chemistry.”
– Deepak Chopra
“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
“Genius is initiative on fire.”
– Holbrook Jackson
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
– Ronald Reagan
“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
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
– George Orwell