Quotes About Intelligence

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart

You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.