intelligence Quotes

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Wit is educated insolence.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.