Quotes About Intelligence

By denying the intelligence in animals, ignoring their extensive abilities to feel and to live as subjects in their own ways in the natural world, we have made our culture and ourselves less intelligent.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

The kind of elitists I admire are those who ruthlessly seek out and encourage intelligence and who believe that competition—and, inevitably, some measure of failure—will do more for character than coddling ever can. My kind of elitist does not grade on a curve and is willing to flunk the whole class.

I have never seen a public man who more quickly, shrewdly, efficiently got through a pile of Sunday newspapers than Calvin Coolidge. I was interested in his skill. It revealed a sharp mind, a lively set of brains. He rose abruptly after his morning stint of reading, walked out of the smoking-room without saying a word; indeed he had passed less than a dozen syllables during the hour and a half while we sat watching him above the rims of our papers.

Luck often is a lazy man's explanation for the result of intelligent diligence.

The art of theatrical story-telling is necessarily relative to the audience to whom the story is to be told. One must assume an audience of a certain status and characteristics before one can rationally discuss the best methods of appealing to its intelligence and its sympathies.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

You may outgun me, outman me, and outspend me. But I'm a writer. I will outplot you.

Many things can be cured with experience and training. Stupidity is not one of them. - Leon

But you can be too intelligent, I said. Sometimes it's not an asset it's a curse.

I began to trust in the power of sprouting, and the more I learned, the more I came to believe that trees are more perceptive, more intelligent, more generous, and more persistent than we are.

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

My favourite definition of "Intellectual" is: "Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence."

The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

Jahangir was, after all, an enormously sensitive, curious and intelligent man: observant of the world around him and a keen collector of its curiosities, from Venetian swords and globes to Safavid silks, jade pebbles and even narwhal teeth. A proud inheritor of the Indo-Mughal tradition of aesthetics and knowledge, as well as maintaining the Empire and commissioning great works of art, he took an

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.