Quotes About Intelligence

There are social deficiencies apt to strike the spirit of young men attending the university and which do strike them, but what is the official admonition? "You students should not concern yourselves with politics. You must attend to your studies and after you have formed yourselves, then go into the world," Yes. That is quite so, but education today does not form an intelligence capable of visualizing the epoch and the problems of the times in which they live.

It is as though nature had safeguarded each child from the influence of human intelligence in order to give the inner teacher that dictates within, the possibility of making a complete psychic construction before the human intelligence can come in contact with the spirit and influence it.

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.

The intelligence (and humanity) of a person are apparent in the strategies he employs to get what he wants. Wisdom, in winning only that whose keeping would not cause too much headache.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

There is a healing force within each of us, a kind of divine physician seated within our minds and in communication with every cell of our being. This force is the intelligence that drives the immune system.

Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who you are, and that means they have enough intelligence and sensitivity and patience to do that.

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He's a smart boy

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

You possess an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can help you heal, relieve stress, and find emotional freedom

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

That girl can barely spell her name.

He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.