A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson


Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde