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Intelligence

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. – Socrates

Information is not knowledge. – Albert Einstein

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Action is the real measure of intelligence. – Napoleon Hill

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. – Albert Camus

Genius always finds itself a century too early. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. – George Bernard Shaw

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. – George Orwell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch

Knowledge is love and light and vision. – Helen Keller

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. – Bryant H. McGill

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. – Janis Joplin