Quotes About Intelligence

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent!

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.

The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better.

Nothing but your choices define your true intelligence.

Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.

People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others.