Quotes About Intelligence

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

We receive an e-mail from a mother who describes how her son, at age two, learned all the state capitals as an afternoon diversion and later solved three-digit arithmetic problems when he was bored in his stroller.

This book is about whether schools and communities choose to squelch or nurture the flame of intelligence in their young people, and what happens when they choose to deny or embrace this national resource.

I will welcome this day with optimism and excitement. I will approach this day with the intelligence, wisdom, and talent that I know I possess, even when doubt creeps into my mind. I will seize this day with all the energy I have within me, and I will radiate enthusiasm to light the path of those who follow me.

Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence? For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.

Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. You are mistaken, said he gently, that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)

Sense will always have attractions for me.

She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Love which did not build a foundation on good sense was doomed.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.