Quotes About Intelligence

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.”

― Bertrand Russell

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

 “Intelligent men are dangerous.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” 

― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 
 

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”

                 ― Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind 

 

“I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)”
― Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank 
 

“Everything intelligent is so boring.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”

― Karl Lagerfeld 

“The more you Learn, The more you earn”
― Frank Clark

“One day I was standing around with a bunch of young girls, and one of them was talking about how she didn’t think she was smart enough to do what she wanted with her life. I said to her, “You are 11 years old. You can do anything you want to do.” I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.”

― Sandra Bullock in Glamour Magazine

“What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.” 

                 ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune 

 

“My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.”

― Max Barry, Machine Man 

 

“Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.”
― Marty Stern

“The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.”
― Michael J. Cohen, The World Peace University Field Guide to Connecting With Nature

                       

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.

 And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.

Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has  taken   to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiratio

1. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

—Albert Einstein

2. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

—André Gide

3. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

4. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

—Aryeh Frimer

5. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

—Bill Vaughan

6. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

—Blaise Pascal

7. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

—Cale Yarborough

8. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

—Charles F. Kettering

9. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

—Christopher Hampton

10. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

11. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

—Dame Edna Everage

12. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

—Edith Sitwell

13. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

—Ellen Goodman

14. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

—Ellen Parr

15. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

—Erica Jong

16. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

—Gordon R. Dickson

17. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

—Lily Tomlin

18. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.

—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)

19. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

—Oscar Wilde

20. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

—Thomas Szasz