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Quotations about Intelligence
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With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. ~Stephen Jay Gould, "Darwinian Fundamentalism," 1997 ["But Charles Darwin must have been the most genial of geniuses."
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ~Stanley Garn
We function on a dozen different levels of intelligence. ~Bergen Evans, "Adam's Navel," The Natural History of Nonsense, 1946
Common sense is not so common. ~Voltaire
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
We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. ~Woodrow Wilson
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud
I have frequently been reproached for committing faults which my censurers had neither the power nor the intelligence to commit. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), "The Character of a Person of my Acquaintance" [Lichtenberg's unfinished "autopsychography" (Norman Alliston, 1908).
The great majority of the world prefers to attend the exhibition of money rather than that of brains. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. ~George Scialabra
To certain people a man of intelligence is a more awkward customer than the most avowed rogue. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799), translated by Norman Alliston, 1908
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ~Emerson M. Pugh
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
~Alexander Pope
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ~Don Herold
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce
Eventually you realize that if you're going to talk sense, you're going to antagonize its opponents. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters
The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ~Joel Hildebrand
I'm not a nerd — I'm an intellectual bad-ass. ~Author Unknown
Primitive does not mean stupid. ~S.A. Sachs
It is hard to challenge an idiot idea, because people think you're challenging their right to idiocy. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering
Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden. ~Author unknown
I think the world is run by C students. ~Al McGuire
Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley
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