Quotes About Intelligence

talent isn't genius and you can't make it so

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

While they thought they were leading me into a trap, I let them go into the trap themselves.

Not surprisingly, he had trouble delegating authority and low regard for the intelligence of other people.

the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixons but between patriotism, & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other.

Rockefeller attributed much of his success to his quick head for figures.

Rockefeller desperately needed intelligent assistance in donating his money at a time when he could not draw on a profession of philanthropic experts.

Hamilton logo se mostrou um aluno de energia incomparável, avançando nos estudos com sua característica rapidez.

I never came into contact with any class of men so smart and able as they are in their business.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Facts are stupid things.

The best minds are not in government.

Este tipo de cosas ha pasado tan a menudo en la historia de la ciencia que el hecho de minimizar el talento, la inteligencia y la contribución de las mujeres científicas debería considerarse un error sistémico.»

I get good marks at school, so I am not stupid. If I don't assert myself a bit, nobody else is going to. I have to assert myself by reasoned conversation, not sulks.

Profoundly intelligent, with a knowledge of human nature, whether European or Arab, which is the result of unusual powers of observation, but which, to the Moor, appears supernatural, the Sherif's audacity is as much mental as physical. He believes in the luck which invariably turns the most adverse circumstances to his final advantage, and is not above staking his remarkable immunity from danger against the credulity of his followers, but below this is the conviction of divine right.

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

The essential characteristic of the fourth period is that, by the exclusion of the soul from direct communion with the psycho-spiritual world, the human faculties of intelligence and feeling were thereby strengthened and invigorated. The souls whose powers of intelligence and feeling had at that time developed to a great extent as the result of former incarnations, carried over with them the fruits of this development into their incarnations during the fifth period.

Then says Mrs. Hauksbee to me – she looked a trifle faded and jaded in the lamplight: "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.

And with an inventiveness no one would have suspected from the standard of Stanley's school work:

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Tyhmät ja touhukkaat ihmiset kuvittelevat, että he toimivat ja toimivat ja toimivat. Sen sijaan käy suorastaan tietynlaisten älypäiden tunnusmerkistä se taituruus, jota osoittaen he välttävät toimimisen.