Quotes About Intelligence

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry?

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all.

our souls also existed apart from the body before they took on human form, and they had intelligence.

Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

Si eres demasiado listo, puedes perderte lo esencial».

If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely.

In Tibetan we call it Rigpa, a primordial, pure, pristine awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant, and always awake. It could be said to be the knowledge of knowledge itself.3

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When in doubt, use your brain. If yo have one.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Is Jason intelligent enough to realise that if you describe a thirty-eight-year-old woman as middle-aged, she's more likely to want to kill you than help you? Because Lauren isn't.

Poirot suspected Hugo Dockerill was one of the stupidest people he had ever met.

The puzzle of why most people, even intelligent people, were so illogical and pig-headed was one to which Poirot had devoted quite enough consideration while lying awake the previous night...

If she had been willing to listen, Poirot might have told her that he would be unlikely to cooperate with any man who considered himself to be the cleverest man in England for as long as he, Hercule Poirot, resided in London.

We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.