What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

Sometimes surely truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love of will of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.