Intelligence Quotes
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of intelligence.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
The use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is kind of ecstasy.
Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Common sense is not so common.
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Brains first, hard work second.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially to make tools to make tools.
An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
