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Quotes About Intelligence

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. – Aristotle

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. – Aristotle

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. – More Mark Twain Quotes

To touch a child’s face, a dog’s smooth coat, a petaled flower, the rough surface of a rock is to set up new orders of brain motion. To touch is to communicate. – James W. Angell

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

It is a damned poor mind indeed that can’t think of at least two ways of spelling any word. – Andrew Jackson

Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire Quote

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde. – Dolly Parton

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
– Emerson M. Pugh

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

Forgot to pay his brain bill. – Unknown Quote

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties – Jules Renard

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. – Edward de Bono

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. – George Scialabra

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold H. Glasgow

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
– More Mark Twain Quotes

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
– Alexander Pope

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve. – Unknown Quote

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. – Dr. Seuss

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. – Don Herold

Teflon brain – nothing sticks. – Lily Tomlin

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce

If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain. – Winston Churchill

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – Unknown Quote

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. – Barbara Walters

Experience is food for the brain. – Bill Waterson

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. – Joel Hildebrand

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. – Albert Einstein

Primitive does not mean stupid. – Unknown Quote

How did the scarecrow know he didn’t have a brain? – Unknown Quote

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain.
– Unknown Quote

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. – Charles F. Kettering

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
– More Maya Angelou Quotes

I think the world is run by C students. – Al McGuire

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. – Mark Amidon

Character is higher than intellect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women’s brain does. – Barbara D. Angelis

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. – Aldous Huxley


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