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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.  - Albert Einstein


I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.  - Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"


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


Common sense is not so common.  - Voltaire


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


What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.  - Sigmund Freud


Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.  - George Scialabra


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


Mad, adj.:  Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.  - Ambrose Bierce





Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly.  - Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


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


I'm not a nerd — I'm an intellectual bad-ass. - Author Unknown


Primitive does not mean stupid. - S.A. Sachs


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





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


Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden. - Author unknown


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


Character is higher than intellect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.  - Aldous Huxley