Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.Rumi
Intelligence Quotes
These 33 quotes on intelligence come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.Jiddu Krishnamurti
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.Swami Vivekananda
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao Tzu
A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time.Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.Arthur Schopenhauer
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.Naguib Mahfouz
Intellect ties you down and risks nothing, but love dissolves all risks and puts everything at stake.Shams Tabrizi
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas Edison
Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.Germaine de Stael
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.Lao Tzu
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.Georg Lichtenberg
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.Dalai Lama
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.Seneca
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.Arthur Conan Doyle
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.Charles Perkhurst
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To see things in the seed, that is genius.Lao Tzu
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Lacordaire
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.Winston Churchill
Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living.Sadhguru
The sign of intelligence is that you are always wondering. Idiots are always sure about everything they are doing in their life.Sadhguru
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.Stephen Hawking
The natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the…David Attenborough
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
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Bill Gates
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.Alan Turing
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!Richard Bach
Action is the real measure of intelligence.Napoleon Hill
There is no great genius without a touch of madness.Aristotle
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.Oscar Wilde