Quotes About Intelligence

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.

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

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

I had always functioned with dignity, wanting to appear intelligent, macho, never vulnerable or insecure. But now I realize that... a part of these comic characters is a fundamental part of me too.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.