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

Primitive does not mean stupid.
~Author Unknown

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

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