Quotes About Intelligence

He's too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very

Information secured after the end of hostilities supports our surmise that some Abwehr officials willfully shut their eyes to suspicions about their agents. They thought it better for selfish reasons to have corrupt or disloyal agents than to have no agents at all.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

It is solely by believing himself a creature but little lower than the cherubim that man has by interminable small degrees become, upon the whole, distinctly superior to the chimpanzee.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

I decided on a retreat. If we dug in and made a stand where we were, we did not have the remotest chance of winning. I figured that the only chance left was to go up into the mountains and carry on a guerrilla campaign. The intelligence squad and the coastal attack squads did not agree. They said they would hold out to the end where they were. I tried to tell them that with no more armaments than they had, they would be sitting ducks for the enemy, but they would not listen.

If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked. "I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

Cardan is clever, but it's not a nice kind of cleverness.

Though Charlie didn't do great in school and had been long ago sorted into the group of kids who were never going to college, she read a lot and she paid attention. She was smart.

Were you a little less clever, perhaps you'd have had more success.

Only Idiots aren't scared of things that are scary.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

The passion, observe, which is able to reflect, gives even to ninnies, fools, and imbeciles a species of intelligence, especially in youth.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Una de las desgracias a las que se ven sometidas las grandes inteligencias es la de comprender por fuerza todas las cosas, tanto los vicios como las virtudes.

La vida sencilla y mecánica conduce a una cordura insensata ahogando nuestra inteligencia con el trabajo, en tanto que la vida pasada en el vacío de las abstracciones o en los abismos del mundo moral lleva a una loca cordura. En una palabra: matar los sentimientos para vivir hasta muy viejos o morir jóvenes aceptando el martirio de las pasiones. Esta es nuestra sentencia.

The social state has freaks which Nature does not allow herself; it is nature plus society. The description of social species would thus be at least double that of animal species, merely in view of the two sexes. Then, among animals the drama is limited; there is scarcely any confusion; they turn and rend each other — that is all. Men, too, rend each other; but their greater or less intelligence makes the struggle far more complicated.

He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.