“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
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intelligence
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“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“Common sense is not so common.”
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”
“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.”
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”