A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Ezra Pound
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
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.
Dolly Parton
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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 function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve Wozniak
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert
Ezra Pound
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs
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.
Dolly Parton
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.
Daniel Goleman
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
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 function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
John Kenneth Galbraith
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve Wozniak
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert Kiyosaki
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert