Top 466 Intelligence Quotes

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

G. H. Hardy

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall.

John Berger

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phaedrus

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Ernest Newman

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas W. Higginson

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