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Intelligence |
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Quotations
 | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 13 likes |
 | Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 13 likes |
 | Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 11 likes |
 | I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 10 likes |
 | Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 10 likes |
 | Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 9 likes |
 | Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 8 likes |
 | The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 7 likes |
 | If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 7 likes |
 | It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
 | I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 6 likes |
 | Time is the only capital of those who just have their intelligence as fortune. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 6 likes |
 | It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 6 likes |
 | The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 5 likes |
 | Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | You know it takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 5 likes |
 | Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 5 likes |
 | The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 5 likes |
 | Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 4 likes |
| Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 likes |
 | I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes |
 | Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 4 likes |
| There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
| The universe is an intelligence test. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 4 likes |
 | All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 3 likes |
| Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
| It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | Intelligence is a moral category. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 3 likes |
 | The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. |
 | Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently. |
| Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language. |
 | An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies: all the stupid men. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. |
 | The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself. |
 | Intelligent women always marry fools. |
 | Love is truly the most beautiful failure of intelligence. |
 | Hesitation is the hallmark of intelligence. |
 | Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. |
 | The intelligent man has in common with the fool that he who does not think like him is a fool. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | When a woman is beautiful, don't tell her she is beautiful, because she already knows that; tell her she's smart because she hopes to be. |
 | Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. |
 | Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. |
 | Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. |
 | The world is the reflection of the intelligence and the thinking of a few superior people. |
 | The brain is wider than the sky. |
 | I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. |
| The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. |
 | Woe to him who is clever, but has no strong character. If you took Diogenes’ lantern in your hand, you must also hold his stick in the other. |
 | Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile. |
| The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners. |
 | Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity. |
Quotes in Verse
 | The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 18 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The dialogue within the soul with itself... was named “thinking”. Ο εντός της ψυχής προς αυτήν διάλογος… επωνομάσθη διάνοια. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
 | I want either a drop of luck or a bucket of brains. Θέλω τύχης σταλαγμόν ή φρενών πίθον. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 9 likes |
 | His foot is slow but quick his mind. Το του ποδός μεν βραδύ, το του δε νου ταχύ. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Ion 7 likes |
 | Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Κράτιστον κτημάτων ευβουλία. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Antigone 6 likes |
