| Quote 47 | I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. |
| Quote 279 | A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. |
| Quote 350 | Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill |
| Quote 425 | Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. |
| Quote 431 | Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. |
| Quote 432 | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. |
| Quote 603 | Belief is the death of intelligence.
- Robert Anton Wilson |
| Quote 908 | Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. |
| Quote 1173 | I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. |
| Quote 1193 | I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. |
| Quote 1890 | Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing. |
| Quote 1938 | Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. |
| Quote 2057 | We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
| Quote 2316 | Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. |
| Quote 2831 | Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. |
| Quote 3509 | Genius always finds itself a century too early. |
| Quote 3657 | I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. |
| Quote 3806 | Common sense is not so common.
- Francois Marie Arouet |
| Quote 3881 | Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- Friedrich Schiller |
| Quote 3995 | As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. |
| Quote 4103 | Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle |
| Quote 4440 | Intelligence is not a science.
- Frank Carlucci |
| Quote 4710 | It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. |
| Quote 4787 | Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. |
| Quote 5221 | There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. |
| Quote 7815 | It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. |
| Quote 8356 | I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be t... |
| Quote 8363 | It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. |
| Quote 8422 | It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. |
| Quote 8545 | The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. |
| Quote 8630 | What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. |
| Quote 8808 | The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. |
| Quote 8865 | There is no method but to be very intelligent. |
| Quote 9021 | All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. |
| Quote 9160 | Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. |
| Quote 9373 | The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. |
| Quote 9990 | Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. |
| Quote 10221 | The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. |
| Quote 10804 | Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. |
| Quote 10984 | Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. |
| Quote 11142 | Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. |
| Quote 11169 | There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. |
| Quote 11570 | The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. |
| Quote 11613 | An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. |
| Quote 11812 | Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. |
| Quote 11823 | There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. |
| Quote 12035 | To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. |
| Quote 12060 | Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
- Margaret Anderson |
| Quote 12387 | It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. |
| Quote 12693 | There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. |
| Quote 12811 | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to func... |
| Quote 12952 | Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. |
| Quote 13193 | Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. |
| Quote 13291 | Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. |
| Quote 13318 | I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. |
| Quote 13508 | The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. |
| Quote 13965 | Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. |
| Quote 14006 | We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. |