--- title: "22 Intelligence Quotes By Victor Hugo" description: "22 Intelligence quotes by Victor Hugo. Plus more from Victor Hugo and more Intelligence sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/victor-hugo-32_future_genius-is-a-promontory-jutting-out-into_2836144.jpg" --- > [Genius is a promontory jutting out into the future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/genius-is-a-promontory-jutting-out-into-the-future/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/victor-hugo-32_future_genius-is-a-promontory-jutting-out-into_2836144.jpg) > [Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/scepticism-that-dry-caries-of-the-intelligence/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b02/victor-hugo-32_doubt_scepticism-that-dry-caries-of-the-intell_1396634.jpg) > [Genius: the superhuman in man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/genius-the-superhuman-in-man/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/victor-hugo-32_genius_genius-the-superhuman-in-man-1275304_1275304.jpg) > [Inspiration and genius -one and the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/inspiration-and-genius-one-and-the-same/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/victor-hugo-32_business_inspiration-and-genius-one-and-the-same_1563898.jpg) > [Taste is the common sense of genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/taste-is-the-common-sense-of-genius/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cad/victor-hugo-32_common_taste-is-the-common-sense-of-genius-7884_788487.jpg) > [Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/enthusiasm-is-the-fever-of-reason/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/415/victor-hugo-32_enthusiasm_enthusiasm-is-the-fever-of-reason-297387_297387.jpg) > [Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/genius-is-a-promontory-jutting-out-into-the-infinite/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b96/victor-hugo-32_genius_genius-is-a-promontory-jutting-out-into_2478168.jpg) > [Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/reason-is-intelligence-taking-exercise-imagination-is-intelligence/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/victor-hugo-32_exercise_reason-is-intelligence-taking-exercise-i_3089456.jpg) > [“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/intelligence-is-the-wife-imagination-is-your-mistress-and-memory-is/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75a/victor-hugo-32_imagination_intelligence-is-the-wife-imagination-is_509757.jpg) > [“The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-best-minds-have-their-soft-spots-and-sometimes-feel-somewhat/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c6/victor-hugo-32_intelligence_the-best-minds-have-their-soft-spots-and_2239910.jpg) > [Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/every-step-which-the-intelligence-of-europe-has-taken-has-been-in/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5f/victor-hugo-32_atheism_every-step-which-the-intelligence-of-eur_1799958.jpg) > [The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-man-who-does-not-know-other-languages-unless-he-is-a-man-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/569/victor-hugo-32_genius_the-man-who-does-not-know-other-language_1435507.jpg) > [His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/his-judgement-demonstrates-that-one-can-be-a-genius-and-understand/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9b/victor-hugo-32_art_his-judgement-demonstrates-that-one-can_1451716.jpg) > [Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/genius-is-rare-because-the-means-of-becoming-one-have-not-been/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/victor-hugo-32_becoming_genius-is-rare-because-the-means-of-beco_2075312.jpg) > [Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/intelligence-is-the-wife-imagination-is-the-mistress-memory-is-the/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/victor-hugo-32_imagination_intelligence-is-the-wife-imagination-is_2273327.jpg) > [“Geniuses are disconcerting. Their comings and goings in the ideal world give one vertigo . . . . They have a telescope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/geniuses-are-disconcerting-their-comings-and-goings-in-the-ideal/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51f/victor-hugo-32_genius_geniuses-are-disconcerting-their-comings_2410300.jpg) > [Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/let-us-leave-to-the-brain-what-belongs-to-it-and-agree-that-the-work/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/493/victor-hugo-32_agree_let-us-leave-to-the-brain-what-belongs-t_1384752.jpg) > [Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/human-intelligence-discovered-a-way-of-perpetuating-itself-one-not-2/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/victor-hugo-32_architecture_human-intelligence-discovered-a-way-of-p_969370.jpg) > [Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/thought-is-more-than-a-right-it-is-the-very-breath-of-man-whoever/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1a/victor-hugo-32_action_thought-is-more-than-a-right-it-is-the-v_141937.jpg) > [“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/let-no-one-misunderstand-our-idea-we-do-not-confound-what-are-called/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/victor-hugo-32_dreams_let-no-one-misunderstand-our-idea-we-do_1317566.jpg) > [Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/human-intelligence-discovered-a-way-of-perpetuating-itself-one-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/victor-hugo-32_architecture_human-intelligence-discovered-a-way-of-p_571762.jpg) > [Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/thought-is-the-labor-of-the-intellect-reverie-is-its-pleasure/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/victor-hugo-32_intellect_thought-is-the-labor-of-the-intellect-re_1491854.jpg) ## Other authors on Intelligence - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 96 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 58 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/albert-einstein/) - [Matshona Dhliwayo 48 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/matshona-dhliwayo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 34 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/bertrand-russell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-arthur-schopenhauer-15054.jpg) Arthur Schopenhauer 29 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/arthur-schopenhauer/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 28 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [Criss Jami 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/criss-jami/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-bryant-mcgill-108.jpg) Bryant McGill 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/bryant-mcgill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/blaise-pascal/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-gardner-42415.jpg) Howard Gardner 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/howard-gardner/) ## More by Victor Hugo > [Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/houses-are-like-the-human-beings-that-inhabit-them/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/first-i-loved-women-then-animals-and-now-i-love-stones-they-re-just/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nature-is-pitiless-she-never-withdraws-her-flowers-her-music-her/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/have-courage-for-the-great-sorrows-of-life-and-patience-for-the-small/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-peasants-of-the-asturias-believe-that-in-every-litter-of-wolves/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/great-blunders-are-often-made-like-large-ropes-of-a-multitude-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/for-love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-of-itself-it-send-its-roots-deep/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/blacheville-smiles-with-the-self-satisfied-smugness-of-a-man-whose/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/loving-in-ignorance-she-loved-with-all-the-more-passion-she-did-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/laughter-is-the-sun-that-drives-winter-from-the-human-face/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/our-joys-have-shadows-the-perfect-smile-belongs-to-god-alone/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-those-we-love-are-in-question-our-prudence-invents-every-sort-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Love is a fault; so be it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-a-fault-so-be-it/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/victor-hugo/#itemlist", "name": "22 Intelligence Quotes By Victor Hugo", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Genius is a promontory jutting out 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