Quotes About Intelligence

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Charlotte possessed, in reality, a mind of more than ordinary dimensions. It is true that feminine dissimulation, combined with the flattening influence of marriage, had subdued its activities; yet her rational part continued to exercise, in discreet silence, both passive intelligence and a critical faculty.

Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads that bind us to nature, as denizens of data and artifice, amid crowds and clutter, we become miserly with these loyal and exquisite guides, we numb our sensory intelligence. This failure of attention will make orphans of us all.

But sometimes the right dog just happens to come along. A smart dog. A loving dog. A helpful dog. A brave and independent dog...a good dog.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

Thirty is a watershed year for men. If they're going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don't, it's too late.

thirty is a watershed year for men. If they're going to develop intelligence, they do it around then, and if they don't, it's too late. So you mustn't hanker after men in their twenties.

Beauty had just squatted under one of the chairs lining the hallway. A small trickle was creeping across the marble floor. 'She's too intelligent to pay mind to me,' Lady Sylvia said blandly. 'All three dogs are French, and they behave just like Frenchmen. Decorative but peevish.

He breathed a power brewed from masculinity and intelligence, not from an accident of inheritance.

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

night on the way here, and he has twice the brains of my father.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be smarter than them.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Everything that you've got already/whatever that you will get subsequently came/will come by grace but with faith. Oh! yes, it's never by your might/intelligence. Moreover, God's grace is meant to work out wonders/goodies for you. But, mind you not without faith. I mean, grace and faith are pari-passu i.e. they go/work hand in hand. Yes, you can't receive God's grace without faith and until you're faithful God's grace won't abound in/with you period.

You should be attracted to someone's level of intelligence and not just his or her level of education. For, someone could graduate from the best University and yet remains clueless about the world and the society that he or she finds himself or herself. -Emeasoba George

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinucide din groaza de singuratate.

Prostia este o suferinta nedureroasa a inteligentei.

prostii zidesc lumea si desteptii o darama

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.