Intelligence Quotes

“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”

“Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.”

“If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.”

“There's many a man hath more hair than wit.”

“Tis good-will makes intelligence.”

“A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.”

“To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.”

“Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.”

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.”

“A good wit will make use of anything.”

“He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.”

“I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.”

“I think thy horse will sooner con an oration thanthou learn a prayer without book.”

“I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

“If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,The one's for use, the other useth it.”

“A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.”

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

“Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.”

“On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”

“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.”

“There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.”