Quotes About Intelligence

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

I recognize that I possess a very special intellect, but at the same time, I recognize that I'm lacking in a lot of areas. But being well-rounded is greatly overrated.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

Ingenuity requires creativity.

There is an all powerful force or energy that creates all and draws all back into it. This is God. It is beyond intelligence, beyond analysis.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.