| Topic |
Quote |
Author |
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| Intelligence | "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart." | Amiel, Henri Frederic |
| Intelligence | "Wit is educated insolence." | Aristotle, |
| Intelligence | "Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence." | Bierce, Ambrose |
| Intelligence | "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." | Billings, Josh |
| Intelligence | "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience." | Buffon, George-Louis de |
| Intelligence | "A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition." | Colton, Charles Caleb |
| Intelligence | "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." | Einstein, Albert |
| Intelligence | "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." | Einstein, Albert |
| Intelligence | "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think." | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Intelligence | "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Intelligence | "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." | Freud, Sigmund |
| Intelligence | "If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." | Garn, Stanley |
| Intelligence | "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." | Herold, Don |
| Intelligence | "The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education." | Hildebrand, Joel |
| Intelligence | "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." | Huxley, Aldous |
| Intelligence | "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." | Lichtenberg, Georg C. |
| Intelligence | "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." | Parton, Dolly |
| Intelligence | "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." | Pope, Alexander |
| Intelligence | "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." | Pugh, Emerson M. |
| Intelligence | "Every true genius is bound to be naive." | Schiller, Friedrich von |
| Intelligence | "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." | Twain, Mark |
| Intelligence | "Common sense is not so common." | Voltaire, |
| Intelligence | "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring." | Whistler, James McNeill |
| Intelligence | "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." | White, E. B. |
| Intelligence | "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." | Wilson, Woodrow |
