Intelligence

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Confucius

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Aesop

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself - for it has created you and me.

Bruce Barton

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Alan Alexander Milne

Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.

Albert Einstein

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Napoleon Hill

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Leo Tolstoy

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

G.K. Chesterton

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains, any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

William Bolitho

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.

Tom Peters

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Robert Kiyosaki

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C.S Lewis

A quiet fool is half a sage.

Yiddish proverbs

Better know a little too much than too little.

Norwegian proverbs