3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.