Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. – Susan Sontag
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. – Bryant H. McGill
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. – Alexander Pope
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. – Josh Billings
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. – Charles Kettering
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. – Daniel Goleman
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. – Tom Robbins
People are smarter than you might think. – John Astin
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. – Steve Wozniak
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. – Arnold J. Toynbee
Remember to be as smart as you are. – Judd Nelson
Intelligence is not a science. – Frank Carlucci
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. – Margaret Anderson
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. – Thomas A. Edison
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. – Edgar Allan Poe
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. – Lao Tzu
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. – Niccolo Machiavelli
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. – Wayne Dyer
