Quotes About Intelligence

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Theory is meaningless to a genius.

Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours." "It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?

There is a vast difference between academic thought and intelligence. Academic thought can only function within the context of separativeness, whilst intelligence is a spontaneous co-operation with the fundamental wholeness that is inherent within the process of life.

Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

Nobody needs to be described as silly: let your analysis show that he is.

The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. Like unto trees of gold arranged in beds of silver, are wise sentences uttered in due season.

Amongst all possessions knowledge appears pre-eminent. The wise call it supreme riches, because it can never be lost, has no price, and can at no time be destroyed.

He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge.

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.