Quotes about intelligence-and-intellectuals

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

— Gerhard Kocher

It is not how smart you are rather, it is how you are smart.

— Jon Campbell

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life, the word intellectual suggests straight away - a man who's untrue to his wife.

— W. H. Auden

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

— William Shakespeare

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

— Mark Twain