Intelligence Quotes And Sayings

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

Knowledge is often mistaken for intelligence. This is like mistaking a cup of milk for a cow.
- Unknown

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Robert J. Shiller

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

A genius is someone who asks dumb questions that nobody else would ask, an idiot asks the smart questions that have already been answered
- Unknown

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
- David Fasold

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce