Intelligence Quote by Don Herold

“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.”

— Saul Bellow Herzog

“Few behaviors of other people are more irritating than those that display our own faults in an unattractive way.”

— John Verdon

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”

— Garson Kanin

“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.”

— Gwen Bristow

“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”

— Ignazio Silone

“...without intelligence, there can be no humour.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”

— Kevin Kelly

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense.”

— George Eliot