Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Oscar Wilde
Month: November 2008
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Simone Weil
When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains. Source Unknown
When you don’t have an education, you’ve got to use your brains.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Source Unknown
It is little that one gains by cleverness. Source Unknown
It is little that one gains by cleverness.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Source Unknown
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are Source Unknown
You think you are clever until you find out how smart you areIntelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Source Unknown
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. Henrik Tikkanen
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Henrik Tikkanen
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. Henry David Thoreau
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Henry David Thoreau
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. Dylan Thomas
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Dylan Thomas
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Robert Louis Stevenson
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Susan Sontag
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Susan Sontag
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. Solomon Short
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Solomon Short
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Arthur Schopenhauer
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Bertrand Russell
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. James Randi
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by James Randi
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. Jewish Proverb
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Jewish Proverb
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it. French Proverb
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by French Proverb
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. Laurence J. Peter
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Laurence J. Peter
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. Brander Matthews
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Brander Matthews
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Marya Mannes
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. James Russell Lowell
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by James Russell Lowell
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
It’s easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It’s easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Milan Kundera
I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Milan Kundera
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. John Maynard Keynes
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by John Maynard Keynes
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. Aldous Huxley
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Aldous Huxley
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. Elbert Hubbard
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Elbert Hubbard
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. Anthony Hope
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Anthony Hope
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Don Herold
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. A. P. Herbert
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by A. P. Herbert
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. Stephen Hawking
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Stephen Hawking
There’s always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel
There’s always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Vaclav Havel
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. Ursula K. Le Guin
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Ursula K. Le Guin
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. Oliver Goldsmith
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Oliver Goldsmith
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Carrie Fisher
I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Carrie Fisher
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. David Fasold
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by David Fasold
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man’s eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.Intelligence and IntellectualsQuotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson