Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. 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. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
3. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Bertrand Russell
4. One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw
5. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. - G. K. Chesterton
6. We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. - William James
7. Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. - Susan Sontag
8. The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. - Ernest Newman
9. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
10. It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - G. H. Hardy
11. Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. - Albert Edward Wiggam
12. I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. - Lisa Alther
13. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. - Thomas B. Macaulay
14. The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. - Blaise Pascal
15. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. - Arthur Schopenhauer