616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“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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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” — Woodrow Wilson

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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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“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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“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

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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

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