Quotes About Intelligence

It had more corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man;

And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyze the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

Martin was very glad to hear this, feeling well assured that if intelligence and virtue led, as a matter of course, to the acquisition of dollars, he would speedily become a great capitalist.

Oh! there is an aristocracy here, then?' said Martin. 'Of what is it composed?' 'Of intelligence, sir,' replied the colonel; 'of intelligence and virtue. And of their necessary consequence in this republic—dollars, sir.

the rhythm of the phases of action and stillness has an intelligence of its own. If we tune in, we can hear that rhythm, and the organ of perception is the desire, the nudge of excitement or the feeling of flow, of rightness, of alignment. It is a feeling of being alive. To listen to that feeling and to trust it is a profound revolution indeed.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Einstein was once quoted as saying that in the society of Australian aborigines, he would rightfully be regarded as intellectually deficient for not being able to track a wallaby or throw a boomerang. If the aborigine ever did get around to drafting an IQ test, all of western civilization would presumably flunk it... Testing and teaching materials must clearly take cognizance of cultural and class differences if the true potential of the individual child is to be recognized and realized.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Instincts outsmart brains.

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

The infant opens its intelligence and love to the mother's song as much as to the mother's face... Every mother ought to sing. Let memories that begin life have songs that last for life.

Optimism... Fatty degeneration of intelligence.

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.