Quotes About Intelligence

Nada despierta más la inteligencia que una sospecha apasionada, nada desarrolla más las facultades de una mente inmadura que un rastro que huye hacia la oscuridad

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They are people with a passion for faith, but not intelligent enough to make a faith for themselves. Pure in spirit, but weaklings as a rule, longing for a mediator who will guide them whither they should go, they form the best possible recruits for the support of new religious sects and novel doctrines of one kind or another.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists call a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

By now Flora was really cross. Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? Here

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Me no read. Look how smart me is.

I was an intelligence agent for the British government. Agent double-oh-seven? she asked lightly. No, he said in a grave tone, then leaned forward and whispered, Agent sixty-nine.

Farewell Pony: Our little friend, the Pony, is to run no more ... Thou wert the pioneer of a continent in the rapid transmission of intelligence between its peoples, and have dragged in your train the lightning itself, which, in good time, will be followed by steam communication by rail. Rest upon your honors ... Rest then, in peace; for thou hast run thy race, thou hast followed thy course, thou hast done the work that was given thee to do. - Sacramento Daily Bee, October 26,1861

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.