Quotes About Intelligence

He paid his people for their intellect and their opinions, not to play it safe until the answer was obvious.

We're in the business of collecting secrets, not giving them away.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Pars stupet innuptae donum exitiale Minervae, et molem mirantur equi;

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

The novel is the medium which makes it possible for people of ordinary intelligence to communicate their ideas to the world.

This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Burada bir soluk al?p, sayfan?n kenar?na, Samuel Butler neden 'Ak?ll? erkekler kad?nlar hakk?nda ne düÅŸündüklerini asla söylemezler,' diyor, diye ekledim. Belli ki ak?ll? adamlar asla baÅŸka bir ÅŸey de söylemiyorlar.

this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, ... upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly ... Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.

I knew my cases and my genders; I could know everything in the world if I wished.

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falcified.

she let it uphold her and sustain her, this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, like iron girders spanning the swaying fabric, upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly, even shut her eyes, or flicker them for a moment, as a child staring up from its pillow winks at the myriad layers of the leaves of a tree. Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.

Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear.

that is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him

It occurred to me that I had a fine brain in beautiful working order and that I might as well use it.

Geniusz to brak przystosowania.

If told I am a bad poet, I smile; but if told I am a poor scholar, I reach for my heaviest dictionary.

We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.

Once we deny a Higher Intelligence that plans and administrates our individual hereafters we are bound to accept the unspeakably dreadful notion of Chance reaching into Eternity.

az ostobaság ugyanis mindig a zsúfoltság szinonimája, és semmi sincs jobban tele, mint egy üres fej.

There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade