The repository contains 94 quotes in the category “Intelligence.”
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s time.
T. H. Huxley
1825 — 1895
A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.
Herbert Victor Prochnow
1897 — 1998
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
427? — 348? B.C.
The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
Since light travels faster than sound, isn’t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
Steven Wright
1955 —
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
384 — 322 B.C.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
1596 — 1650
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
1869 — 1948
Intelligence is no defense for stupidity.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 — 1882
We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
The mind commands the body and the body obeys. The mind commands itself and finds resistance.
St. Augustine
354 — 430 A.D.
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
Saadi
1184 — 1291
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