Intelligence Quotes - Page 7

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself!

You have to be smart to get what you want.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

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

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being-forgive me-rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.