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Intelligence Quotes and Sayings

Primitive does not mean stupid.
Author Unknown

Character is higher than intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the world is run by C students.
Al McGuire

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
Joel Hildebrand

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
George Scialabra

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Primitive does not mean stupid.
Author Unknown

Character is higher than intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the world is run by C students.
Al McGuire

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
Joel Hildebrand

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
George Scialabra

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

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
Emerson M. Pugh

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

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

Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.
Jonathan Swift

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

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters

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

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Stanley Garn

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