Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old
woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent
musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Bob Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
Douglas Adams
Years and years ago, I did a game based on Hitchhiker's Guide
with a company called Infocom,
which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
Douglas Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
The shortest and the best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.
Jean de La Bruyère
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while
the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson
Genius ... has been described as a supreme capacity for taking trouble ... It might be more fitly described as a supreme
capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds and keeping them therein so long as the genius remains.
Samuel Butler (Author)
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you.
I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Jamie Lee Curtis
The first thing intelligence teaches is error may occur.
Robert J. Dainard
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison
The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
Albert Einstein
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is higher than intellect ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
Think with the few and speak with the many.
Baltasar Gracián
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
Don Herold
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Eric Hoffer
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting to think about than sex.
Aldous Huxley
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct
acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which
neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Niccolò Machiavelli
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis
The time has now definitely come when every intelligent individual must learn
to think globally, beyond the horizon of a narrow nationalist point of view.
Robert Maxwell
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
Charles Stewart Parnell
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?
George Bernard Shaw
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a
noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies
will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should
be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.
John Alexander Smith
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
Interview published June 9, 2013.
Edward Snowden
Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.
Thomas A. Stewart
[I am] not smart, but genius ... and a very stable genius at that!
In a tweet, January 6, 2018.
Donald Trump
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful
in the choice of his enemies. I have not one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
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