Intelligence Quotes

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.