Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ~Stephen Hawking
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ~Blaise Pascal
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. ~Charles F. Kettering
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. ~Joseph Whitney
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. ~Bertolt Brecht
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. ~H. Jackson Brown
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ~Rene Descartes
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations. ~Andre Gide
Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate. ~Mary M. Illigassch
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. ~Josh Billings
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. ~Marya Mannes
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ~Susan Sontag
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. ~Linus Torvalds
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. ~Laurence J. Peter
Intelligence forbids tears. ~Dorris Lessing
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence is the art of good guesswork. ~H. B. Barlow
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ~Emile M. Cioran
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong. ~Robert Reed
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. ~Abigail Adams
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. ~Lewis Mumford
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ~Laurence J. Peter
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ~Alfred N. Whitehead
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. ~Thomas a Kempis
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ~Henri Bergson
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. ~George Santayana
Intelligence is a moral category. ~Theodor Adorno
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~Saul Bellow
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ~Arthur C. Clarke
There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing. ~Edgar Degas
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. ~Andrea Dworkin
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. ~Bryant H. McGill
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. ~Stanislaw J. Lec
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. ~Jean Baudrillard
The intellect is always fooled by the heart. ~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ~Simone Weil
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. ~Oscar Wilde
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. ~Alexander Cannon
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud
Only great minds can afford a simple style. ~Stendhal
Intelligence is enormously sexy. ~Frank Langella
Intelligence is nothing without delight. ~Paul Claudel
Wit is educated insolence. ~Aristotle
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.~Michel de Montaigne
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ~Anne Louise Germaine De Stal
