Intelligence Quote by David McCullough

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

— Michael Ignatieff

“An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.”

— Ilyas Kassam

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

— Chauncey Wright

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand,…

— Anonymous

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.”

— Amit Kalantri

“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science. To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new…

— Toba Beta

“No one person is inherently more intelligent than another; we all simply excel in different areas of intelligence.”

— Siddharth Katragadda

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

— Susan Banfield

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully