Intelligence Quotes
Emerson leads this page, followed by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Isaac D’Israeli, the American humorist Josh Billings and Simone Weil. For sourced lines there is Disraeli, in Contarini Fleming (1832), saying patience is a necessary ingredient of genius, and Emerson in English Traits (1856), remarking that the hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
Three popular lines carry flags. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent” is credited to Einstein and marked misattributed. A line about the centuries rarely producing a genius, credited to David Lloyd George, is also marked misattributed. William Feather’s remark that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person is disputed.
Sometimes murkiness of motives can be mistaken for intelligence.
I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
Once again, Caddrick had failed to use the few brains God had given him.
Freud was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him.