Intelligence Quotes

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Now 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.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man.