Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Wit is educated insolence.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
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.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
