Famous Intelligent Quotes in English with Images

It is not worth and intelligent man's time to be in the majority.  By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.  The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.  Though looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid.  Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

- Intelligent Quotes by Bertrand Russell Download or Share

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

- Intelligent Quotes by Bill Watterson Download or Share

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense we have.

- Intelligent Quotes by Don Herold Download or Share

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

- Intelligent Quotes by George Bernard Shaw Download or Share

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

- Harriet Martineau Quotes Download or Share

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

- Henrik Tikkanen Quotes

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

- Henry Adams Quotes

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

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

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.