Quotes About Intelligence

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Theres my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.