Intelligence Quotes

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Steve Jobs

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

John Maynard Keynes

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

Ben Kingsley

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Aldous Huxley

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

Marsha Blackburn