#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.”

“America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.”

“The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.”

“Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.”

“Leadership is the intelligent use of power.”

“There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

“Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.”

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

“I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.”

“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.”

“You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.”

“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”

“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”

“Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.”

“You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.”

“When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.”

“A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.”

“You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”

“It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.”

“Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb”

“I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.”

“Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.”

“The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.”

“I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.”

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”