The repository contains 94 quotes in the category “Intelligence.”
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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Titus Livy
60? B.C. — 17
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you can’t act stupid.
Christopher Lloyd
1938 —
A wise man is nothing more than a fool with a good memory.
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
James Moore
1737 — 1777
If the teacher is ignorant, how can the student be expected to be any better?
An invention is intelligence waiting to be acknowledged.
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence Peter
1919 — 1990
The Peter Principle
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
45 — 120
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when they are open.
Nick Pope
1965 —
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
It is not the strength of the man’s muscles that beats the other man; it is the strength of the man’s mind that overcame him.
Every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he’ll rise.
Ayn Rand
1905 — 1982
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
1667 — 1745
Chance favors the prepared mind.
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
1958 —
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Earl Weaver
1930 —
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
Richard Whatley
1787 — 1863
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
1952 — 2001
Take care not to make the intellect our god; it has powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
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