Quotes About Intelligence

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

[T]he invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I couldn't beat people with my strength I don't have a hard shot I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

I do not let other people define me. I am who I am, and that is an intelligent and gracious human being. And as such, I do not drop to the level of bullies and trade insult for insult.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency.

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our land when it was common for stories to be told and retold, a most valuable exercise, for the story retold is the story reexamined over and over again at different levels of intellectual and emotional growth.

Light up your life by turning on your brain."

The car has no muscle and the cell phone has no brain.

The fuel of the brain is wisdom, without it you will get nowhere."

The wise don't know the answer, the intelligent think they do, the crazy don't.

Still, I accepted this invitation to speak tonight because if one of my fundamental rules for living a successful and happy life is: don't be the smartest person in the room, it's corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room. This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Good intelligence wins battles long before the first arrow is shot or the first sword is drawn from its scabbard.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Deixava os meus manuscritos permanecerem na gaveta do meu escritório durante anos, antes de me sentir suficientemente seguro para publicá-los. Ser esperto era algo que eu podia deixar para os outros.

Sana aptal oldu?unu söylüyorlar. Bense ak?ll? ama korkak oldu?unu söylüyorum. Sana insan toplumunun süprüntüsü diyorlar. Bense onun tohumu oldu?unu söylüyorum. Uygarl???n kölelere gereksinmesi oldu?unu söylüyorlar. Ben, hiçbir uygarl???n kölelerle kurulamayaca??n? söylüyorum.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.