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Quotations
Intelligence

Quotations on intelligence, genius, and understanding.

The source format of the quotes is as follows:
- Real person: - their name 
- Fictional characters: - character's name, book/movie of origin, if book then author
- Poem, song, or book: - poem, song, or book, author

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
- Plato

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill

Knowledge needs to be a verb.
- W. Edwards Deming

What moves men of genius, or rather inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
- Eugene Delacroix

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not how smart you are; but how you are smart.
- Howard Gardner

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese proverb

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
- Charles Steinmetz

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
- Welsh proverb

A teacher is better than two books.
- German proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish proverb

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese proverb

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
- Proverbs 17:23, The Bible

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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