Quotes About Intelligence

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

Mladý muž je tehdy bohatý, má-li rozum v hlav? a dobrý oblek ve sk?íni.

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

Several five-star hotels were mentioned as targets, including the Trident–Oberoi and the Taj. Since then there had been twenty-five further alerts, many of them delivered by the CIA to the Indian government's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, and passed on to India's domestic Intelligence Bureau.

Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?

According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "She was duller than himself, and consequently did not find out that he was so.

Ye'll have to prove yerself more than others, but I believe ye've the courage, strength, and intelligence to conquer this affliction. If ye work hard and learn to properly wield a sword, there's none that will be able to best ye.

The world tells me I am its creature I am raked by eyes brushed by hands I want to crawl into her for refuge lay my head in the space between her breast and shoulder abnegating power for love as women have done or hiding from power in her love like a man I refuse these givens the splitting between love and action I am choosing not to suffer uselessly and not to use her I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence

To destroy the institution is not to abolish motherhood. It is to release the creation and sustenance of life into the same realm of decision, struggle, surprise, imagination, and conscious intelligence, as any other difficult, but freely chosen work.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.

All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.

Genius is patience.

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.

The most important thing is to stay smart and patient.

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

I really enjoyed Paul Sinha. He's from 'The Chase.' As you imagine, he's intelligent. But that doesn't mean he's got any common sense at all.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

I actually had a lot of very smart peers.

That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.