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.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

Intelligence is the wife imagination is the mistress memory is the servant.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years but humor implies intelligence.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time he's very kind to people.