A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
당신이 할 수 있는한 똑똑해라(be as smart as you can). 그러나 똑똑한 것보다는 현명한 것이 언제나 낫다는(be always better to be wise than to be smart) 것을 명심해라.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Belief is the death of intelligence.
신념은 지성의 깊이(the death of intelligence)이다.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
천재는 품위있는 상식, 그 이상의 아무것도 아니다(be not anything more than elegant common sense).
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
나는 내가 가진 모든 두뇌뿐 아니라 빌릴 수 있는 모든 두뇌도 사용한다(not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow).
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
Dolly Parton
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.
Irene Peter
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
지성은 아내이고(intelligence is the wife), 상상력은 정부(情婦)이며(imagination is the mistress), 기억력은 머슴이다(memory is the servant).
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant H. McGill
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
Diogenes
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
Ernest Newman
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
마음은 채워져야 하는 용기가 아니라(is not a vessel to be filled) 붙여져야 할 불(a fire to be kindled)이다.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.
이 세상에는 오로지 두 인종만 있다(there are only two races on this planet). 지적인 사람과 어리석은 사람(the intelligent and the stupid)이다.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
Roger Ebert