Quotes About Intelligence

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

Wanasayansi wanasema hakuna Mungu kwa sababu hawawezi kumwona wala kumgusa. Lakini nao hawana akili kwa sababu hawawezi kuiona wala kuigusa.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.

A smart model is a good model.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.