3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people!

Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.

Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.

I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.