Quotes About Intelligence

No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.

A brilliant invention isn't much until some idiot calls the genius who created it an idiot.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

And I love it when your hair still wet cause you just took a shower. Runnin on a treadmill and only eating salad. Sound so smart like you graduated college, like you went to Yale but you probably went to Howard.

But whenever we find ourselves describing someone's ability in terms of societal measures of success—prizes, wealth, fancy titles—rather than in terms of what they are capable of doing, we ought to worry that we are deceiving ourselves. Put another way, the cynic's question, if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

You don't get a rebate at the end of your life for living with an idiot.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

We've created life in our own image.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.