Quotes About Intelligence

It is amazing to realize what a marvelously complex series of events are constantly being woven behind our backs without our knowledge. It seems that everything has a meaning, if not in our lives, then in someone else's. It is also reassuring that a higher intelligence is keeping track of it all.

Remember, the more you exercise the brain, the fitter it becomes.

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The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

In the last 20,000 years, our brains have shrunk 10 percent—from 1,500 cubic centimeters down to 1,350—a loss of the volume of a tennis ball.

The growth of poetry is a counterforce--and a response--to our culture of numbers and information, of digits and commerce. We read and write poems so that our psyches can speak to each other with intelligence in the language of feeling, acknowledging the multiplicity and contradiction of each human life.

An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more books than just about anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot what he read.

There lived ten-year-old Encyclopedia Brown

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

O be wise, what can I say more?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.