Quotes About Intelligence

Of course. MAN—an acronym." The mouth on the screen quirked with obscure humor. "Oh? What do the letters stand for?" "Multi-Appendaged-Numbskull, of course. Every creature who is worthy of the title of sapience knows that.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something

But I am too stupid to be convinced by him.

Unless, said I, either philosophers become kings in our states or those whom we now call our kings and rulers take to the pursuit of philosophy seriously and adequately, and there is a conjunction of these two things, political power and philosophic intellgence, while the motley horde of the natures who at present pursue either apart from the other are compulsory excluded, there can be no cessation of troubles, dear Glaucon, for our states, nor, I fancy, for the human race either. (473d-e)

You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus.

Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.

When the mind's eye is fixed on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and knows them, and its possession of intelligence is evident; but when it is fixed on the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its opinions shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something

Knowledge, do you say it is power? yes most mighty of all powers.

If you're intelligent, you find a few sensible men much more frightening than a senseless crowd. - Agathon to Socrates

Las opiniones buenas no son las de los sabios, y las malas las de los necios?

Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

And is not shrewdness a quickness or cleverness of the soul, and not a quietness?

What amazing instruments reside in the three or four pounds between our ears, instruments with greater capacity than a thousand busy New York City switchboards.

Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence—nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them.

No man has wit enough to reason with a fool, Zin.

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.