There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.