Quotes About Intelligence

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.

He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.

Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

Don't try it," he said. The mutant was reading my mind. "You, boy, you're a literary trainspotter...

Researchers into bird communication have revealed the astonishing fact that not only do ravens listen to the gossip of neighbouring flocks, but they pay especially close attention when it tells of a reversal in another bird's status.

When we confine animals for food, destroying their family and community connections, obliterating their connection with the earth and with their habitats, and thwarting their intelligent drives, we commit extreme violence against not only these creatures, but against the whole interconnected system of intelligence that supports them and that they serve.