1. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.-Stephen Hawking
2. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.-Salvador Dali
3. Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.-Blaise Pascal
4. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.-Eleanor Roosevelt
5. The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.-Charles F. Kettering
6. The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.-Joseph Whitney
7. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.-Bertolt Brecht
8.Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.-H. Jackson Brown
9. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.-Rene Descartes
10. The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.-Andre Gide
11. Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.-Mary M. Illigassch
12. There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.-Josh Billings
13. The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.-Marya Mannes
14. Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.-Susan Sontag
15. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.-Linus Torvalds
16. The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.-Albert Einstein
17. The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.-Laurence J. Peter
18. Intelligence forbids tears.-Dorris Lessing
19. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.-H. B. Barlow
21. Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.-Emile M. Cioran
22. The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.-Robert Reed
23. I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.-Abigail Adams
24. One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.-Lewis Mumford
25. An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.-Laurence J. Peter
26. Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.-Alfred N. Whitehead
27. Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.-Thomas a Kempis
28. Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.-Henri Bergson
29. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.-George Santayana