For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. – Honore de Balzac
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. – Simone Weil
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. – Louis Pasteur
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. – Joseph Story
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. – Bertolt Brecht
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. – James Russell Lowell
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. – Terry Pratchett
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. – Virginia Woolf
Intelligence is a moral category. – Theodor Adorno
The universe is an intelligence test. – Timothy Leary
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. – Laurence J. Peter
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. – Alvin Toffler
The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. – Simone Weil
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. – Simone Weil
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. – J. K. Rowling
