Quotes About Intelligence

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

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Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.

Hunger is a funny thing. It has a kind of intelligence of it's own.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

long (Stanley Coren, The Intelligence of Dogs: A Guide to the Thoughts, Emotions, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions, 1994). Interestingly, despite careful qualifications

Nici inteligen?a, nici talentul, nici geniul nu l-au împiedicat vreodat? pe om s? se în?ele. Ba s-ar zice c?, din contr?, ele îl ajut? s? se cufunde ?i mai departe în ceea ce constituie profunzimea ?i sumbra str?lucire a r?t?cirii.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.

intelligence, the most plastic and at the same time the most durable structural equilibrium of behaviour, is essentially a system of living and acting operations.

According to Claparède, feelings appoint a goal for behaviour, while intelligence merely provides the means (the "technique"). But there exists an awareness of ends as well as of means, and this continually modifies the goals of action.

So we must start from this dual nature of intelligence as something both biological and logical.

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.

The most skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind.

we use math not because we're smart, but because we aren't smart enough.