Quotes About Intelligence

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!

Lestrade had learned by more experiences than he would care to acknowledge that that brain could cut through that which was impenetrable to him.

Excellent! I cried. Elementary, said he. It

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that

It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In

knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and

Casi todo el mundo, ante una sucesión de hechos, acertará a colegir qué se sigue de ellos... Los distintos acontecimientos son percibidos por la inteligencia, en la que, ya organizados, apuntan a un resultado. A partir de éste, sin embargo, pocas gentes saben recorrer el camino contrario, es decir, el de los pasos cuya sucesión condujo al punto final. A semejante virtud deductiva llamo razonar hacia atrás o analíticamente

Esta vez, Watson, califíqueme en su relato como de burro completo.

I think I have known how to frame the letter," said Sherlock Holmes.

The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain.

A veces encuentra algo- comentó Holmes, encogiéndose de hombros-. De cuando en cuando tiene algún chispaso de razón, il n'y a pas des sots si incomodes que ceux qui ont de l'ésprit! ( Los tontos que más molestan son los que tienen ingenio)

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux ont de l'esprit.

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Complexity of thought is no measure of originality.

Empathy is not a feeling or sensation that suddenly washes over and engulfs us, but an intelligent, deeply respectful exploration of what lies beneath the surface of our world.

Bah! Do you know,' the Devil confided, 'not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead than yours - have solved it? Why, there's a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Genius lives only one storey above madness

The only certain rule is the one that Aristotle already gave: do not dispute with anyone and everyone, but only with those people you know who are intelligent enough to avoid saying things that are so stupid as to expose themselves to humiliation, who appreciate the truth, and who gladly listen to good reasons, even when the opponent claims them, and who are balanced enough to bear a defeat when the truth is on the other side.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

a hundred fools together will not make one wise man.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.