Quotes About Intelligence

A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it's not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence. So it's easy to imagine scientists' eyebrows arching in surprise when dolphins—and not chimpanzees—were discovered in the 1950s and 1960s to have a brain nearly as large as our own on this scale.

Clearly, animals know more than we think and think a great deal more than we know.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Carlito always used to say teenagers don't start drugs because they taste good, or because the kids are bored, or because they want to forget their problems, or because of their hormones, no, they get high to destroy their intelligence. Because if they kept it intact, just when it's at its peak, they wouldn't be able to bear the pain of the disgust they'd feel for their parents.

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.

En vérité, l'homme est l'être le plus curieux du monde, murmura-t-il. Il voudrait voler comme un aigle mais il n'a pas ses ailes. Il voudrait avoir la force du lion, mais il n'a pas ses pattes. Comme tu l'as créé terriblement incomplet, Seigneur ! Et en prime, tu lui as donné l'intelligence et le pouvoir de connaître ses faiblesses.

Der kluge Idealismus steht dem klugen Materialismus näher als der dumme Materialismus.

It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

Common sense is not so common.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

his T-shirt had words printed on it, so he was probably the brains of the outfit.

Defected Russian Intelligence officers have revealed that World War II was fomented and used by the Russian leaders as an important part of the long-range strategy for the expansion of World Communism.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

Atacar los libros malos no solo supone una pérdida de tiempo, sino que es malo para el carácter. Tratándose de un libro verdaderamente malo, el único interés que puede desprenderse de lo que escriba sobre él tendrá que provenir de mí mismo: de toda la inteligencia, ingenio y malicia que yo consiga desplegar. Es imposible reseñar un gran libro sin presunción.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.