Intelligence Quote by J.M. Barrie

“Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited…

— Giacomo Casanova

“If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have…

— Emma Bull

“But we mustn’t forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.”

— Saul Bellow

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“It’s not the genius of an idea that makes it great. Rather, it’s the courage to pursue it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would worship, and…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Too low for the sublimity of my genius and the elegant taste of N. Webster.”

— Joshua Kendall