Quotes About Intelligence

It has yet to be proved that intelligence has any survival value.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing—to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

— John Keats

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you.  Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

— Millicent Carey McIntosh

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

— Charles F. Kettering

To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pay a high price for being intelligent.  Wisdom hurts.

— Euripides

He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

— Margot Asquith

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

— Samuel Johnson

The height of cleverness is to conceal one’s cleverness.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows.

— Havelock Ellis

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

— Anthony Hope Hawkins

No one is content with his fortune, nor discontent with his intellect.

— Madame Antoinette Deshoulieres

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

— G. K. Chesterton