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Most people think of themselves as being intelligent. Intelligence quotes spotlight specific details of what it means to be intelligent.

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
-Henri Frederic Amiel

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
-Henry Ford

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
-Irene Peter

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
-James Whistler

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
-Janis Joplin

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
-John Fowles

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
-Josh Billings

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
-Josh Billings

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
-Julius Charles Hare

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
-Lena Horne

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
-Lewis Carroll

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
-Margaret Anderson

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
-Napoleon Hill

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

Belief is the death of intelligence.
-Robert Anton Wilson

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
-Roger Ebert

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
-Ronald Reagan

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
-Salvador Dali

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
-Scott Adams

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-Sigmund Freud

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
-Susan Sontag

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
-T. S. Eliot

Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire

I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson

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