Quotes About Intelligence

When two intelligent parties disagree, that's when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.