3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is concern for content.

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.

In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent.

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.