Quotes About Intelligence

Little boys have amazing minds.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

You should use your intelligence and critical mind to carefully examine everything you see or hear.

among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*

It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.

Rather, a reader's imagination is the act of one creative intelligence engaging another.

One other problem is that too many people—and vendors in particular—are already using big data to mean any use of analytics, or in extreme cases even reporting and conventional business intelligence.

I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments.

I hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!

The thought of Pascal's was brought home to him: "A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il y a plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.

I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?—Job xii. 3.

Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.

No; the charm is worked by common sense, and the spell can only be broke by your acting stupidly.

It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.

Two things to begin with. First, we go on the premise that Dr. Lecter really knows something concrete. second, we remember that Lecter looks only for the fun. Never forget fun.

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice. -- Hannibal Lecter

pig is not like other animals. There is a spark of intelligence and a terrible practicality in pigs.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

If I had read as much as other men had, I would have known as little.

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.