A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Nicolas Chamfort – Intelligence
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
George Eliot – Intellectual, Intelligence
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Eckhart Tolle – Intelligence
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde – Intelligence
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Goethe – Intelligence, Sensible
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
