Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
2. Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege. - Richard Hofstadter
3. To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. - Mary Pettibone Poole
4. Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. - Robert Anson Heinlein
5. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein
6. Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding. - Freeman John Dyson
7. The voice of intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. - Sigmund Freud
8. Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. - Remy de Gourmont
9. Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. - David Fasold
10. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. - Albert Camus
11. The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. - Leo Tolstoy
12. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams
13. A really intelligent man feels what other men only know. - Baron de Montesquieu
14. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold
15. The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. - Robert J. Shiller