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Intelligence Quotes

"In the societal arena, one who has skills and use them intelligently is more likely to be chosen than one who has none and can envision none."
Noam Chomsky
"Love is wiser than wisdom."
Umberto Eco
"There is no sin except stupidity"
Oscar Wilde
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Bertrand Russell
"It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid."
Ray Bradbury
"It is better to know how to learn than to know"
Dr. Seuss
"There is a kind of splendid stupidity"
Charles Dickens
"One measure of genius is the ability to see alternatives."
Ezra Pound
"Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The voice of intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear."
Karl A. Menninger
"The worst thing about being wise is that you are perpetually being asked why you aren’t rich."
George Bernard Shaw
"Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider. That's scary."
George Carlin
"The most intelligent people in the world are those who don’t need to be told"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Intelligence without principle is luck, not skill"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The heart frames the universe, rendering it intelligible"
Etel Adnan
"Every wise, just, and fortunate man that ever existed owed his greatness, in the first place, to the universal favor of fortune; and in the second, to his own peculiar diligence and virtue"
David Hume
"Clever in small things, foolish in bigger ones."
Benjamin Franklin
"He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."
Benjamin Franklin
"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points"
Alan Kay
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