Quotes About Intelligence

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it?

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Martha was a clever girl, and therefore not a believer.

It seemed...that intelligence wasn't as pure and unalterable a characteristic as people believed. Being intelligent was like being good: you could be virtuous in one person's company and yet wicked in another's. You could be intelligent with one person and stupid with another. It was partly to do with confidence...In a way she had been more confident when she had been eighteen and foolish. At twenty-three, with Michael, she felt less confident and therefore less intelligent.

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

Jis buvo gilesnio proto ir griežtesnio b?do nei aš. Logiškai m?st?, o paskui elg?si remdamasis logiška išvada. Ta?iau daugelis iš m?s?, ?tariu, daro priešingai: priima instinktyv? sprendim?, paskui kuria priežas?i? infrastrukt?r? jam pateisinti. O rezultat? pavadina sveiku protu.

I often wondered about Nigel, and why things seemed so much clearer to him. Was it more, or less, intelligence; more, or less, imagination; or simply a more stable personality?

Bet kai esi labai protingas, tai, manau, kas nors gali išmušti tave iš v?ži?, jeigu nepasisaugosi

Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got.

Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.

Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.

vapidity was an excellent disguise for many qualities.

He wasn't at all what she expected. No: this wasn't true. He was everything she'd expected from everything she'd read about him—he was irritating, frivolous, arrogant, disconcertingly charming. It was just that she would not have suspected his intelligence had depth, that his wit was in part defense, that his charm was a result of, in part, startlingly acute perception and even…grace.

I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

It did not seem possible, much as he craved the comfort of a woman of intelligence, of humor and balance and perception.

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.

In the past, a woman could get along without an analytical mind; but not any more. A woman who wanted to be the equal of Westerners and a fine woman wasn't very promising is she had no aptitude for systematic thinking and analysis.

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.