Quotes About Intelligence

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

True miracles are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence that God gave them.

When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

We need to teach a highly educated person that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts of the world.

Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.