Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes

As living spies we must recruit men who are intelligent but appear to be stupid.

Nothing invites disaster like linking high intelligence and low ideals.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Intelligent men are inconsistent, but intelligent; fools are also inconsistent, and also foolish.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.