Intelligence quotations

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◆ Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- A. A. Milne99

◆ If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S. Patton99

◆ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

- Helen Gurley Brown99

◆ Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

- Paul Cezanne99

◆ I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

- James Madison99

◆ If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Common sense is not so common.

- Voltaire99

◆ Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

- Samuel Goldwyn99

◆ The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

- Sigmund Freud99