Intelligence Quotes

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I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you… — Mitch Hedberg
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. — Ernest Hemingway
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. — Jimi Hendrix
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. — Don Herold
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. — Don Herold
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate… — Hermann Hesse
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists,… — Hermann Hesse
Action is the real measure of intelligence. — Napoleon Hill
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they… — Thomas Hobbes
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. — Lena Horne
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. — Elbert Hubbard
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. — Victor Hugo
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. — Elizabeth Hurley
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins

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