Charles Caleb Colton

"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

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."

Josh Billings

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

E. B. White

"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

George-Louis de Buffon

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

James Whistler

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."

Mark Twain

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

Woodrow Wilson

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

Dolly Parton

"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."

Emerson M. Pugh

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Albert Einstein

"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

Ambrose Bierce

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."

Alexander Pope

"The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."

Aldous Huxley

"The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education."

Joel Hildebrand

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."

Don Herold

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Albert Einstein

"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."

Sigmund Freud

"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle