Quotes About Intelligence

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

It required a lot less energy, intelligence, and competence to run against government than to try to make government work.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I began to get the idea that this wasn't the brightest cat I'd ever met.

Cloudkit's strong and brave," he told her. "And intelligent." And nosy, spoiled, disrespectful

Drizzle pricked her ears. "Yesterday she said that I was as dumb as a water vole. But I'm not." "Of course you're not!" Pine Needle's whiskers twitched mischievously. "You're dumber.

hope it means I'll know things other cats don't." "Like what?" Mischief lit his gaze. "How to speak to Twolegs?" "Don't be stupid!

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

Canek dijo: —Nunca te enorgullezcas de los frutos de tu inteligencia. Sólo eres dueño del esfuerzo que pusiste en su cultivo; de lo que logra, nada más eres un espectador. La inteligencia es como una flecha: una vez que se aleja del arco, ya no la gobierna nadie. Su vuelo depende de tu fuerza, pero también del viento y, ¿por qué no decirlo?, del destino que camina detrás de ella.

I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

Setec Astronomy.

Sorrento," I said, trying to hide the fear in my voice, "I want you and your bosses to know something. You're never going to find Halliday's egg. You know why? Because he was smarter than all of you put together. It doesn't matter how much money you have or who you try to blackmail. You're going to lose.

species is capable of existing peacefully within the Sodality," the Envoy said. "It was initiated when your probe first discovered the swastika on Europa's surface. We selected a symbol that your culture most associates with war and death, and then we re-created an enormous replica of that symbol on the nearest celestial body in your solar system with conditions capable of harboring intelligent life.

NASA dubbed this spacecraft the Envoy I, and it reached Europa on the 9th of July, 1976—the day humanity made its first direct contact with an alien intelligence.

The talk of the educated, the talk in books, confused him, as if on purpose, as if education itself were a conspiracy to make certain that the knowledge of the world was unavailable to him. And yet he believed in his own intelligence, took pride in the way his thoughts came together like the cocking of a revolver. But the words were never there to express the thoughts, and so his private stock of knowledge was forever his secret, sealed inside by his ignorance.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.

O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved.

Money is a powerful means of exploitation and oppression; but it is also the only means (apart from the most tyrannical dictatorship or the most idyllic accord) so far devised by human intelligence to regulate production and distribution automatically. For the moment, rather than concerning oneself with the abolition of money one should seek a way to ensure that money truly represents the useful work performed by its possessors. . . .

Roo!" Calvin jumps off my lap in a happy dog dance. I know some people who argue that dogs can't understand English. I figure their dogs are just a lot dumber than Calvin, because there is a definite understanding of the words ice cream.