Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they’re really stupid […]

The only difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

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 […]

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.