Quotes About Intelligence

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.

Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Apparently, he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine, if you get my drift.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

I mix them with my brains, sir.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

Reading maketh a full man.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.