Quotes About Intelligence

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

It's good to be open-minded, but not so open that your brains fall out. -Jacob Needleman

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it was all their faults.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.

Generally, the smartest people on the planet – those people who think they are really smart – tend to have the most horrible relationships.

Life is a circus when your intellect and your body alone are involved. Life is a dance, when the intelligence begins to play its role.

Creator is just pure intelligence. Intelligence beyond logic is Creator, or what you are referring to as God.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.