Quotes About Intelligence

In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

Tutti lo consideravano intelligentissimo, cosa che nella sensibilità comune equivaleva a considerarlo anemico, o daltonico: una malattia inoffensiva ed elegante.

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

The curious thing was that not a single experiment had ever suggested a link between listening to Mozart's music and increased infant intelligence. The closest an experiment had come to making this connection was a 1997 study, again by Rauscher, that demonstrated a relationship between piano lessons and improved spatial-reasoning skills among preschoolers.

Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes - she was looking at me - is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see. - Kendra Hilferty

Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces.

Be prudent like Nestor and cunning like Odysseus.

The public wants gurus, and new gurus will come. As an intelligent trader, you must realize that in the long run, no guru is going to make you rich. You have to work on that yourself.

Dogs can read signals -- look at sheepdogs; they understand hand movements for left and right. Dogs are no fools, you know. He paused. Well, some are. Some dogs are truly stupid, Ulf.

There are some people who start off knowing very little about the world and end up years later knowing even less. Never underestimate the capacity of the human mind for ignorance." Mr. Woodhouse found this very amusing.

He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had thought for hours about everything he said.

Some knowledge is a fish," she muttered. "Some is a serpent.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.

Thus, the lesson we should draw from these people is not that each person's talents are infinitely malleable or that they can be anything they want to be if they just apply themselves. Rather, the lesson is that talents, like intelligence, are value neutral. If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, then change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents.

each of the best minds ends by making fairy tales

Why do so many Christians neglect the study of God's Word? R. C. Sproul said it painfully well: "Here then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

Are you calling me a dummy?" "Not at all. I'm just saying that maybe some of us caught on a bit faster than others.

You proved your skill and exposed their deceit without uttering a single word of accusation. Brilliant!

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.