Quotes About Intelligence

civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.

It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

they who make pretensions to philosophy are often less wise and reasonable than others who never applied themselves to the study

But, because I had already very clearly recognized in myself that the intelligent nature is distinct from the corporeal

About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

J'avais déjà eu connaissance de l'extrait du Journal de Gide (vous savez sans doute qu'il est ici en ce moment) ; cela donne une bien triste idée de sa prétendue "intelligence" ! lettre du 30 janvier 1946 à un correspondant inconnu

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person," - Nero Wolfe

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold—if you have one.

Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms.

In a moment Wolfe said gruffly, "It is faintly encouraging that you are aware that you were stupid.

Sai benissimo in cosa consista la vita, è fatta di qualità umane, tra le quali c'è un controllo dignitoso e intelligente degli appetiti che condividiamo con i cani. Un uomo non divora una carcassa o ulula su una collina dall'alba al tramonto; mangia cibo ben cucinato, se può permetterselo, e in quantità moderata, e adatta con saggezza i propri ardori alla convenienza.

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

It is not people who are giving you the things you desire. If you hold that false belief, you will experience lack, because you are looking at the outside world and people as the supply. The true supply is the invisible field, whether you call that the Universe, the Supreme Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence, or whatever else.

DN: I know a certain human with his brains in his, his other end.