intelligence Quotes

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

First appearance deceives many.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.