Quotes About Intelligence

Ignoran que el hombre vale por su saber;

Believing in chance is like believing in miracles. Both things must assume that God does not know the future. What is a chance? It is something that absolutely no one can foresee. What is a miracle? It is a contradiction, a subversion of the laws of Nature. Both contradiction and lack of foresight imply imperfection in the Intelligence that governs the machinery of the world.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as wit.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a little study to enable one to do so, and the recompense is great.

The kid scared her sometimes, he was so smart. She wondered where he inherited it. Not from her gene pool, that was for sure. Richard, her first husband and Gabe's father, was smart enough but no genius. She also wondered from time to time whether being so precocious made him an outcast at his private boys' school. It couldn't be easy.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.

There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").

More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment." The irony is that, "unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex world.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

The infinite intelligence in your subconscious can give you access to wonderful new kinds of knowledge.

Many people are closed off to their own potential because they do not know about the storehouse of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves.

Know that in your deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Power.

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

In the absence of virtue and wisdom, intelligence becomes a servant of evil.