Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its attainments, and blesses the detector of errors as a benefactor and […]
Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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.
