The repository contains 94 quotes in the category “Intelligence.”
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Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure of the former.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Take care not to make the intellect our god; it has powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
1952 — 2001
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 — 1882
Being smart is what keeps some people from being intelligent.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne
1533 — 1592
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