Quotes About Intelligence

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

She didn't even really see those parts of him anymore. She saw the kindness in his eyes when he looked at her. She heard the intelligence in his voice when they debated literature. And she saw the pride he had in his voice when he looked around. I'm see the man inside the beast

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

Fine, make beds, but find a way to keep using your head.

The unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

And in the middle is man, the highest and most rational of material beings but also the lowest of the spiritual beings, "the boundary line of things corporeal and incorporeal." Human beings occupy a crucial place in Aquinas's ordered nature. They are the one material being gifted with a soul. They are also the one spiritual being gifted with a mind, meaning an active intelligence ready to take on the challenges the material world offers.

Like Charles Murray in The Bell Curve, Wells foresees a future divided between a permanent underclass and a "cognitive elite.

If, indeed, there be any one circle of thought distinctly and palpably marked out from amid the jarring and tumultuous chaos of human intelligence, it is that evergreen and radiant Paradise which the true poet knows, and knows alone, as the limited realm of his authority—as the circumscribed Eden of his dreams.

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the evil maladies which now afflict the church of God. The reason why there is so little depth, so little intelligence, so little grasp of the fundamental verities of Christianity, is because so few believers have been established in the faith, through hearing expounded and through their own personal study of the doctrines of grace.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se requiere mucha inteligencia para disfrazar de artificio las propias emociones" (Arturo Pérez-Reverte)

Así, tras haber tenido buen número de amantes, una mujer debe considerarse afortunada si sabe convertir a alguno de ellos, el más inteligente, en un fiel y leal amigo.

Una mujer perspicaz —continúa ella— adivina al pedante en la tercera frase, y es capaz de ver el talento del que guarda silencio.