Quotes About Intelligence

Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey

A wiser intelligence might now truthfully say of us at this point: here is a chimera, a new and very odd species come shambling into our universe, a mix of Stone Age emotion, medieval self-image, and godlike technology. The combination makes the species unresponsive to the forces that count most for its own long-term survival.

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it!

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger

Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual

If the trillions of cells in our bodies can run amazingly complex functions without our conscious effort, then we can only imagine the wisdom of Mother Earth that we have not yet learned.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

whats intelegnece without wisdom

simple conveying of information to rational people.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded...

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

The worst part of dealing with his sisters was that they were all so damned smart. Ever since he'd returned to the Parker family headquarters he'd tried to be "helpful" and get the mail himself. But it didn't arrive consistently, and he couldn't be walking out to the street every five minutes all day long. "Oh?" he muttered, allowing himself only a brief glance at the letter before returning

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Molto brillante! Consideratevi applaudito.

Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.