“If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.”
“Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
“Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.”
“We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.”
“One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''”
“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.”
“I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.”
“Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”
“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.”
“Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.”
“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”
“A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.”
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.”
“You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.”
“People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.”
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.”
“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”
“Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.”