Intelligence Quotes

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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

Our intelligence is always imperfect.

Think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Believe no evil till the evil's done

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

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.

Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth.