Famous Quotes

"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."

Quentin Crisp on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Quentin Crisp

• "For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."

• "Manners are love in a cool climate."

• "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

• "It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."

• "Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave."