82 Intelligence Quotes to Sharpen Your Wits (WISDOM)

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Top 10 Most Famous Intelligence Quotes

“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”
Roy H. Williams

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 — 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**

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. - Socrates — I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. – **Socrates**

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer — **Talent** hits a target no one else can hit; **Genius** hits a target no one else can see. – **Arthur Schopenhauer**

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. - Maya Angelou — I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. – **Maya Angelou**

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford — **Failure** is simply the **opportunity** to begin again, this time more intelligently. – **Henry Ford**

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche — The man of **knowledge** must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his **friends**. – **Friedrich Nietzsche**

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein — The measure of intelligence is the ability to **change**. – **Albert Einstein**

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch — The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – **Plutarch**

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. - Aristotle — There is no great genius without some touch of madness. – **Aristotle**

16 Wise Intelligence Quotes That Will Elevate Your Wisdom

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought together?” This is a practical question. We must get down to it. “I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.”
Albert Camus

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky — It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. – **Fyodor Dostoyevsky**

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Oscar Wilde — Quotation is a **serviceable** substitute for wit. – **Oscar Wilde**

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
Susan Sontag

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. - Albert Einstein — It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. – Albert Einstein

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche — A thinker sees his own **actions** as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. **Success** and failure are for him answers above all. – **Friedrich Nietzsche**

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
Edgar Allan Poe

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Gustav Jung — The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. – **Carl Gustav Jung**

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. - Stephen Hawking — Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – **Stephen Hawking**

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. - Oscar Wilde — To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. – Oscar Wilde

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Søren Kierkegaard — People demand **freedom** of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – **Søren Kierkegaard**

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift — When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway — An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. – **Ernest Hemingway**

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton — If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. – **George S. Patton**

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. - Carl Jung — Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has **struggled** with in vain. – **Carl Jung**

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. - Blaise Pascal — Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. – Blaise Pascal

3 Intelligence Quotes on Emotions

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. - Roger Ebert — Your intellect may be confused, but your **emotions** will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes — The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. – Marya Mannes

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. - Paul Cezanne — Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily **experience**. – Paul Cezanne

15 Intelligence Quotes That Will Enhance The Way You Think

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle