Quotes About Intelligence

Regard Earth and Heaven as endowed with intelligence, since they do the work of intelligent beings.

Mut ohne Klugheit ist Unfug, und Klugheit ohne Mut ist Quatsch!

It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.

Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.

Armastus teeb naise teravmeelseks, mehe aga võtab juhmiks.

Elus võidab ainutl loll; tark näeb liiga palju takistusi ja muutub ebakindlaks.

Captain Hall had no direct control over Room 40—as of early 1915 his intelligence division and Room 40 were separate entities—but his name more than any other would come to be associated with its achievements.

What was a pretty, clever girl anyway? She gets called a "muse," but she was kindling.

The only reason I collect good money for what I do, is because I've demonstrated my ability to do it. If the taxpayers didn't give you your salary check every month until you'd delivered results, you might have to go hungry a few months,—unless you showed more intelligence than you're showing on this case.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

He'll never be frightened. He knows too damn much.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

If I find any Krauts, can I kill them?" "The Colonel said all but one," Thomas Hudson said. "Try to save a smart one." "I'll give them all IQ tests before I open up." "Give yourself one." "Mine's goddam low or I wouldn't be here," Willie said, and he set out. He walked contemptuously and he watched the beach and the country ahead as carefully as a man could watch.

The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

Tom," Ara said. "All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were Impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. Now that you have ceased to be careful of yourself I must ask you to be, please. For us and for the ship.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.