Quotes About Intelligence

The Thunderhead has its reasons for everything," the nonplussed colleague said. "The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.

The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

Il caos intero piombò in quell'intelligenza (tout le chaos ruola dans cette intelligence)

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.

Never had I known a young girl so beautiful and at the same time so gentle and intelligent. Where were her men? Where had they failed?

El problema con el mundo es que la gente inteligente está llena de dudas, mientras que la gente estúpida está llena de certezas.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. -- Dünyan?n sorunu, ak?ll? insanlar ÅŸüphelerle doluyken, aptallar?n özgüvenle dolu olmas?d?r.

So many people are doomed by their ambition and their gathered intelligence, their bank account and savings and loan intelligence. If there is any secret to life, that secret is not to try. Let it come to you: women, dogs, death, and creation.

So," said Sarah, "those are your readers?" "That's most of them, I think." "Don't any intelligent people read you?" "I hope so.

that they could imagine that I'd want to converse with them at 7 a.m. is an insult to whatever intelligent life is left in our dwindling universe.

Wise son of a bitch, you're one of those sons of bitches with a vocabulary and you like to lay it around!

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.

Mi mujer y mis 9 gatos me parecen los más grandes genios de este mundo. Lo son.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ? Charles Bukowski

The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed.

Reason tells me of the] extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capability of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.

Natural selection rendered evolution scientifically intelligible: it was this more than anything else which convinced professional biologists like Sir Joseph Hooker, T. H. Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than John Locke.

A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect (compared to animals or other living beings), only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference