Intelligence Quotes



There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold (1889-1966) American humorous writer, artist.

The successful man will see just so much more than his neighbors as they will be able to see, too, when it is shown them, but not enough to puzzle them.
Samuel butler (1835-1902) English author.

The height id cleverness is being able to conceal it.

The third rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A.A.Milne (1882-1956) British author.

There may be an optimum level of intelligence and perhaps we have already exceeded it. Our brains may be too big dooming us as Triceratops was doomed by his armour.
Arthur C.Clarke (b.1917) British author.

As far as I can remember, there is not one world in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I have finally come to the conclusion that a good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist.

Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes useless, sometimes fatal. It is a torch or firebrand according to the use one makes of it.
Caballero.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
Franklin.

The higher feelings, when acting in harmonious combination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless scope for gratification; their lest indulgence is delightful, and their highest activity is bliss.
Combe.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
Shakespeare.

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.
Jerrold.

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