Top 200 Intelligent Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

2. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

3. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Goal Quotes

4. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”

— William James

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

5. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

6. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Quality Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

7. “I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Witty Quotes

8. “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Also featured in: Truth Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Doubt Quotes

9. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

— Seneca the Younger

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

10. “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Taking Action Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Quotes About People

11. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes

12. “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Study Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Giving Up Quotes

13. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Reflection Quotes

14. “Plan for what is difficult when it is easy, do what is great when it is small.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Military Quotes

15. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Quality Quotes

16. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

— Allen Saunders

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

17. “We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Knowledge Quotes

18. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

19. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Quotes About Work

20. “Know thyself.”

— Socrates

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes

21. “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

22. “You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Philosophical Quotes

23. “The best revenge is to improve yourself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Growth Quotes

24. “We are what we believe we are.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

25. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Time Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes

26. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Quality Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

27. “Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Science Quotes, Math Quotes

28. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Famous Quotes, Important Quotes

29. “The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Inspiring Quotes

30. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

31. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Education Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

32. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Important Quotes

33. “Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

34. “Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

35. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.”

— Ginni Rometty

Also featured in: Growth Quotes, Sunday Motivational Quotes

36. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Future Quotes

37. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Achievement Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

38. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

39. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”

— Harvey MacKay

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Inspirational Life Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes

40. “The purpose of life is the life of purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Meaning of Life Quotes

41. “Change is the only constant.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Famous Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

42. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Deep Quotes

43. “One today is worth two tomorrows.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Uplifting Quotes

44. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

45. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

46. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

— Jack London

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

47. “Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.”

— Lorenzo Snow

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Trying

48. “Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance – now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Mind Quotes

49. “We are our choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Choices Quotes, Quality Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Powerful Quotes

50. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Famous Quotes, Quotes About Thinking