Intelligence Quotes

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. -Winston Churchill


It is wiser to find out than to suppose. -Mark Twain

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. -Bertolt Brecht

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. -Socrates

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. -Lao Tzu

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. -Tao Te Ching

Where two discourse, if the one’s anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise. -Euripides

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. -Leonardo da Vinci

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. -Socrates

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. -Ernest Hemingway

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise. -Benjamin Franklin

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. -Susan Sontag

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts. -Henry Brooks Adams

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -James Truslow Adams

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Moshe Arens

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste. -Lucille Ball

Half of the world’s misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes from intelligence. -Baslo

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -Dr. Joyce

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. -Woodrow Wilson

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -Sigmund Freud

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. -Emerson M. Pugh

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. -Alexander Pope

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. -Jonathan Swift

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. -Joel Hildebrand

I think the world is run by C students. -Al McGuire

Character is higher than intellect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson