We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. ~ Carl Sagan

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. ~ Victor Hugo

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell

Perhaps the only reason I regard myself as an intelligent man is that I've never in my whole life been able either to begin or to finish anything. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. ~ Lisa Alther

A great many people think that poly syllables are a sign of intelligence. ~ Barbara Walters

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf? ~ Larry Niven

Intelligence forbids tears. ~ Doris Lessing

What characterizes a good leader? Curiosity, empathy, practical intelligence, and courage. ~ Beverly Pearson

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular. ~ Roy Wilkins

What a splendid head, yet no brain. ~ Aesop Fables

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