3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his brain fit. Healey had laughed."It's memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses... at least that's what thingummy said.""Who?""You know, what's his name, Greek poet chap. Wrote the Theogony... what was he called? Begins with an 'H'.""Homer?""No, dear. Not Homer, the other one. No, it's gone. Anyway. Memory, that's the key.

I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.

People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body.