“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

“Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”

Molière book Tartuffe

“She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence… they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good…”

Eva Ibbotson A Company of Swans

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“To err is human. Yet it is a sign of how far computer science has come that to err is also artificially intelligent”

Newton Lee American computer scientist

“It is the call of the beauty — robed ones
To worship the great Beauty.
It is the call of God
Through silent intelligences
And starburst of feelings.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship