Quotes About Intelligence

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

Dorothy looked at him curiously. His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains. How do you feel? she asked. I feel wise indeed, he answered earnestly. When I get used to my brains I shall know everything. Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head? asked the Tin Woodman. That is proof that he is sharp, remarked the Lion.

The mule is a very intelligent animal, but to get his attention you have to hit him on the head with a stick.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed the shaggy man.

I am afraid I shall never have any brains, after all!

In Oz, where all the animals and birds can talk, many fishes are able to talk also, but usually they are more stupid than birds and animals because they think slowly and haven't much to talk about.

But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything? I

Brains, remarked Cap'n Bill, is of all kinds and work different ways. But I've noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often mistook.

Sin embargo —dijo el Espantapájaros—, yo pediré un cerebro en vez de un corazón, pues un tonto sin sesos no sabría qué hacer con su corazón si lo tuviera. —Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo. Dorothy guardó silencio; ignoraba cuál de sus dos amigos tenía la razón

Nor did that intelligence provide him with an answer to his real problem. He knew submorons, many of them working for him, whose capacity to enjoy life was infinite compared to his.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.