Quotes About Intelligence

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Great minds sink alike, right?

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.