3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

A good mind is a great asset.

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

To me it’s weird when animals pause because they seem so intelligent, but maybe that’s because I associate pausing with thought.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Intelligence on its best day is no match for wisdom on its worst day.

Intelligent silence is better than ignorant speech.

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

A barren womb is better than a barren mind.