Intelligence Quotes And Sayings

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“Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.”
– Ernest Bevin

“The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.”
– Alexander Block

“Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.”
– H.G. Bohn

“Man’s brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.”
– Karl Brandt

“Talent, taste, wit, good sense are very different things but by no means incompatible. Between good sense and good taste there exists the same difference as between cause and effect, and between wit and talent there is the same proportion as between a whole and its parts.”
– Jean de la Bruyere

“The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades he links the four quarters of the globe.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
– Albert Camus

“The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecrated intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.”
– Edwin Chadwick

“Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.”
– J.J. de Chenier

“I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course. Everything that surrounds us-everything that exists-proves that there are Infinite Laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
– Euripides

“Brains aren’t everything, but they’re important.”
– William Feather

“The man who puts $10,000 additional capital into an established business is pretty certain of increased returns; and in the same way, the man who puts additional capital into his brains-information, well directed thought and study of possibilities-will as surely-yes, more surely-get increased returns. There is no capital and no increase in capital safer than that.”
– Marshall Field

“Nothing is useless to the man of sense; he turns everything to account.”
– Charles Fontaine

“The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.”
– Malcolm Forbes

“When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.”
– R.H. Grant

“The brain is a mass of cranial nerve tissue, most of it in mint condition.”
– Robert Half

“To meet the great tasks that are before us, we require all our intelligence, and we must be sound and wholesome in mind. We must proceed in order. The price of anger is failure.”
– Elwood Hendricks

“The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.”
– Thomas W. Higginson

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
– Bertrand Russell

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

– Bill Watterson

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

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
– G.H. Hardy

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.”
– Harriet Martineau

“Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.”
– Henrik Tikkanen

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