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Quotes About Intelligence

I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin.
~ Osamu Dazai
Don't try to be too clever. And when purposefully misspelling common words, proceed with caution.
~ Unknown
She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.
~ Oscar Levant
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~ Oscar Wilde
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
~ Oscar Wilde
Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
~ Oscar Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
~ Oscar Wilde
The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation.
~ Unknown
Tenia unos ojos muy verdes y una mirada inteligente y cálida que me recordaba a otra, más lejana.
~ Unknown
Sitting alone and apart, anybody has the right to talk with contempt of the mob and the crowd and the witless many. For everybody with his wits about him knows well enough that, once the crowd takes him again, he will do very silly things, things unworthy of so intelligent a person.
~ Unknown
These three things always work together— moral intelligence, the spontaneous originality of the Holy Spirit, and the setting of a life lived in communion with God.
~ Oswald Chambers
The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.
~ Owen Gingerich
They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The village of Market Blandings is one of those sleepy hamlets which modern progress has failed to touch... The church is Norman, and the intelligence of the majority of the natives palaeozoic.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.
~ P.C. Cast
As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)
~ P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Life is consciousness expressing itself in form. All is alive. All is intelligent.
~ Unknown
Hay que contraponer, al pesimismo de la inteligencia, el optimismo de la voluntad (Gramsci).
~ Unknown
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
~ Pablo Picasso