Top 10 Best Quotes about intelligence

Intelligence is not just the ability to solve problems or memorize information. It is the capacity to understand, analyze, adapt, and respond creatively to challenges. It shows up in many forms: logical, emotional, social-communicative, and intuitive. A highly intelligent person doesn’t necessarily know everything — they know how to ask the right questions, learn, and see the essence.

Intelligence helps us find unconventional solutions, build relationships, regulate ourselves, and understand others. Importantly, intelligence is not fixed. It can be developed at any age by training attention, imagination, memory, and empathy. Today, flexible thinking, emotional maturity, and the ability to learn from experience are especially valued. Intelligence is not cold calculation. It’s a living tool through which we think, feel, change, and grow.

Here are the top 10 quotes about intelligence:

• “The ability to ask intelligent questions is already an important and necessary sign of intelligence and insight.” I. Kant
• “A short mind has a long tongue”. Aristophanes
• “We should not complain about the fact that there are few intelligent people, but thank God that they exist”. V. Klyuchevsky
• “A healthy stomach does not accept bad food, a healthy mind does not accept bad views”. W. Hazlitt
• “Usually, the more intelligence a person has, the less importance he attaches to it”. L. Mercier
• “While the heart still nourishes desires, the mind retains illusions”. F. Chateaubriand
• “The mind is always a fool near the heart”. F. La Rochefoucauld
• “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” Confucius
• “Lower the mind into the depths of knowledge – you will raise the heart to heaven”. V. Hugo
• “Better to be simple and honest than smart and deceitful”. Sophocles