616 private quotes tagged intelligence

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“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.”— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“Common sense is not so common.”— Voltaire
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“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”— Lao Tzu
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“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”— Albert Einstein
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“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”— Alexander Pope
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“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”— Josh Billings
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“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”— Josh Billings
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“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”— T. S. Eliot
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“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”— Friedrich Schiller
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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”— Victor Hugo
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“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”— Pablo Picasso
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“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”— Woodrow Wilson
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“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”— George Orwell
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”— George Orwell
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“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”— Albert Camus
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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”— William Feather
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“Wit is educated insolence.”— Aristotle