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Quotes About Intelligence

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
~ Antonio Damasio
The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
~ James Fisher
I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
~ Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.
~ Peter Salovey
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~ Peter Pace
We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.
~ Myles Munroe
I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.
~ Mike Huckabee
There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.
~ Mike Huckabee
The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.
~ John Mayer
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~ Alexander Pope
Knowledge is the currency of the universe.
~ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
~ Michael Gove
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
~ Richard Hamming
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
~ Don Herold
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
~ Alexander Pushkin
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
~ Democritus
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
~ Charles Kettering
True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."
~ Isaac Asimov
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
~ Lady Gregory
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
~ Malcolm X
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
~ John Ray
Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
~ Anne Sullivan Macy