3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown... the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.-Charlie Gordon

Any lingering doubts that intelligence is a rich topic for neuroscience should be melted away given the genetic and neuroimaging studies described in the previous two chapters. If not, please suspend any remaining disbelief until the end of this chapter wherein even more compelling findings are described.

Pure intellect without emotion is like a knife without a handle - does more damage than good.

Hold a flashlight on the street and it brightens your way, but hold it smack right into your eyes and you see nothing - the same is with intellect - too much intellect takes away your humanity.

Pure intellect without emotion is like a knife without a handle.

You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence. He had, in short, all the Byronic ennui with neither of the Byronic outlets: genius and adultery.

I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.

Page 85: Results for the military stand apart from all civilian work settings and occupations. One relevant factor for explaining the military’s success is presumably that each branch has its own minimum score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test required of all recruits. The Army requires a score at the 31st percentile or higher, equivalent to an IQ of 92.6 or more, which is roughly the top half of the African and Latin distributions.