Quotes About Intelligence

A beast, that wants discourse of reason.

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Jiddu Krishnamurti: "To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

It's easy to imagine a world in which genes have control over our minds, and for many animals they do. But once we took the evolutionary pathway toward greater intelligence and a lifestyle that relies on learning rather than inborn knowledge, our genes had no choice but to relinquish much of their control.

Of all the preferences that evolution gave us, I suspect the desire to share the contents of our minds played the single most important role in elevating us to the top of the food chain.* We are the fiercest predator on the planet by virtue of the power of our minds, but even human minds aren't that special on their own.

the body will always be more sophisticated than the mind

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

10 to 15 minutes of Image Streaming per day will actually build your intelligence by reinforcing bridges of communication between the different poles of your brain

Neither E=mc [squared] nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.

You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you've got more sense than most people.

The one thing I remember from Fort Benning is that they didn't seem to be nobody much smarter than I was, which was certainly a relief.

Maybe I am a idiot, but at least I ain't stupid

The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.

Mo?e jestem idiota, ale nie jestem g?upi.

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

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.

I beg you most humbly to go on loving me just a little and to make do with these poor congratulations until I get some new drawers made for my small and narrow brainbox in which I can keep the brains that I still intend to acquire.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.