3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly; intelligence is needed to generate right action. Wisdom guides whether to act or not, and if so how. Sometimes darkness is overwhelming and intelligent action is required. Sometimes silence and inaction is required, but a silence which is the result of intelligence is different from that born of ego states such as pride, fear and laziness.

Il ne faut pas désespérer les imbéciles, avec un peu d'entraînement on peut en faire des militaires.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.