Famous Quotes

"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."

Walter Lippmann 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 Walter Lippmann

• "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

• "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

• "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

• "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

• "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."