Quotes About Intelligence

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

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace." ― Frank McCourt

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." ― Walter Cronkite

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

"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special." ― Nelson Mandela

"It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise." ― George R.R. Martin

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow." ― Woodrow Wilson

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." ― Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection." ― Victor Hugo

"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." ― Jim Morrison

"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more." ― P.G. Wodehouse

"The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it." ― Terry Pratchett

"Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper." ― Wilkie Collins

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." ― Walter H. Cottingham

"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am." ― Cormac McCarthy

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."- Albert Einstein

"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more."- Ed Parker

"Action is the real measure of intelligence."- Napoleon Hill

"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."- Abigail Adams


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