Quotes About Intelligence

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.

Better silent than stupid.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The power of Thought, - the magic of the Mind!

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

Great men are not always wise.

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.