It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
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
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
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
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin
Remember to be as smart as you are.
Judd Nelson
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve Wozniak
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Don Van Vliet
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
Albert Einstein
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
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
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
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
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin
Remember to be as smart as you are.
Judd Nelson
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve Wozniak
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Don Van Vliet
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
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