Intelligence Quotes

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

Ideals are the world's masters.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

What worries you, masters you.

John Locke

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

John C. Maxwell

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

James Cash Penney

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Joseph Roux

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Juvenal

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Khalil Gibran

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Konrad Lorenz

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Karl Pilkington

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

Karl Pilkington

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Luc de Clapiers

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Leo Rosten

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca