Intellect Quote by Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

— Marcel Proust

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.

— John Lennon

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect…

— Ashley Montagu

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease.…

— Marcel Proust

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as…

— Thomas Sowell

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky…

— H. L. Mencken

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

— Horace Walpole

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”

— Tim Weiner

“Intellegence is a disease”

— J. Philipse