Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- George-Louis de Buffon
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
- Joel Hildebrand
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The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- Aldous Huxley
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
- Dolly Parton
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
- Alexander Pope
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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
- Emerson M. Pugh
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Every true genius is bound to be naive.
- Friedrich Schiller
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Mark Twain
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Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
- James McNeill Whistler
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson
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