Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn’t need intelligence, a man in my job doesn’t need to much of it either.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.