Quotes About Intelligence

Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.

Hay mujeres admirables, acostumbradas a pensar. Damas inteligentes, libres de espíritu, que se sitúan por encima de los prejuicios y combinan el alma fuerte de los hombres con la sensibilidad de su sexo. —Eso es muy cierto. Quizá por eso, las mujeres de talento aman más tiernamente a sus viejos amigos que a sus jóvenes amantes... Ellas pueden engañar a veces al marido o al amante, pero nunca al amigo.

Siempre es tan brutalmente sincero? —Sólo cuando además de guapa la mujer es inteligente.

No es mejor echarse en brazos de una naturaleza ciega, desprovista de sabiduría y objetivos, que temblar toda la vida esclavizados por una supuesta Inteligencia Todopoderosa, que ha dispuesto sus sublimes designios para que los pobres mortales tengan la libertad de desobedecerlos, y convertirse así en continuas víctimas de su cólera implacable?

el dinero de los tontos es el patrimonio de los listos.

Un diablo inteligente ni siquiera necesita mentir

La inteligencia es la menos importante de las facultades humanas. La inteligencia no sirve sino para crearnos obstáculos, para distraernos de la acción o para deslustrar y empequeñecer con el análisis lo que la vida puede tener de bello. Más que inteligencia preferiría tener sensibilidad. Diga de mí que soy sensible y me dará gusto.

When it is said that a buddha shows the path in accordance with the respective karmic fortune of the disciples, this means that he adapts his teaching to their respective intelligence and mental capacities.

Am I hot? I asked. Google Assistant replied - You are just the right temperature.. At least someone has intelligence, even though it is artificial!

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

Let wisdom be your weapon

We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

Sábio é o ser humano que tem coragem de ir diante do espelho da alma para reconhecer seus erros e fracassos e utilizá-los para plantar as mais belas sementes no terreno da sua inteligência.

Sea inteligente, respete su vida. ¡Deténgase! ¡Piense! ¡Obsérvese! ¡Percíbase! Ningún psiquiatra o psicólogo puede hacerlo por usted.

Durante os dois primeiros anos do ensino secundário, eu tinha apenas dois cadernos e quase nada estava escrito neles. Era difícil adaptar-me a uma educação que não provocava a minha inteligência. Alguns, naquela época, vendo o meu aparente desinteresse, achavam que eu não seria nada na vida. Mas dentro de mim, havia uma explosão de ideias. Pensar era uma aventura que me encantava.» Pergaminho, 2004: p. 72

If you are smart enough to add letters to math problems, you're smart enough to dig your own grave.

If you feel the need to be stupid, do so elsewhere.

Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.

I may not be smarter than I was last year, but I know more. And I'm certainly no stupider.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.