Intelligence Quotes · Page 162

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

— Arlene Croce

If you ain't smart for shit, you better fix yourself before you wreck yourself.

— Simon Quperlier

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

— Andre Gide

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

— David Foster Wallace

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

— Emile Zola

Sometimes you have to choose between being dumb for them or being smart for yourself.

— Sonya Parker

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone…

— Charli XCX

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

— Thomas de Quincey

“People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body.”

— Bianca Frazier

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

— Eric Hoffer

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

— Carl Van Vechten

Experience is looking in the past to find an answer, genius is looking in the future to raise a question.

— Tasneem Hameed

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart…

— Ram Dass

“One study found that children with up to about 140 IQ tolerate the ordinary school routine and achieve excellent marks without major…

— Harris Crenshaw

“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them…

— David Marusek

At the secret CIA training facility called 'The Farm,' aspiring case-officers learn how to recruit spies and steal secrets. As a former…

— Will Hurd

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is…

— John Ruskin

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful…

— Dorothy Parker

“Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed…

— Ray Dalio

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming…

— Samuel Johnson

For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's…

— Peter Greenaway

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— Travis Bradberry

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

— Anonymous

I'm a smart person. I understand analytics. I understand the mid-range is a tougher shot.

— Tyrese Haliburton

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There must be a reason to share it and the means to do so.”

— Ryan Holiday

“We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.”

— Susan Banfield

Genius is ninty-nine percent madness and one percent acumen.

— Steve Fowler

If you notice you are worthless, what is the reason why you keep it long

— Jimenez Cherry Belle

“A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A human has to be that smart, to know how stupid he needs to be.

— Ruben Papian

I want to be the reason for your smile,nothing more.

— Abhishek Tiwari

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

— Mason Cooley

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

— Adam Savage

If you were twice as smart as you are now, you'd be absolutely stupid.

— Anonymous

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

— Otto Weininger

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

— Albert Einstein