3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Intelligent people have a strong objection to things that mean nothing at all.

What is a word? It is a sound vibration! And what is the intelligence behind this vibration that 'thinks' the Word? The answer is MIND (or what some call consciousness, intention or god).

Viu que Durham [Clive] não só era esperto como tinha também uma mente ordenada e tranquila. Sabia o que queria ler, onde estava mais fraco, e até aquilo em que os professores o podiam ajudar. Não tinha nem a fé cega nos tutores e nas aulas, como Maurice e o seu grupo, nem o desprezo professado por Fetherstonhaugh.--------------------------------------------------p.42, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

The dullest person, after all, has gleaned from mere observation that highly intelligent parents often produce offspring so stupid that they can barely breathe. (And, much more interesting from the eugenic point of view, that the opposite is also true.)

If common sense is so rare, isn't it 'common sense' to start calling it rare sense?

There is, then, intellectual knowledge--the stuff of research studies and think pieces--and there is experiential knowing. Both are important, and women from all backgrounds might possess both. But we rarely exalt the knowing, which is the only kind of feminism many working women have.

There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.

Grey Hair Doesn't Guarantee Grey Matter.

Intelligence can get you from A to B, but curiosity will get you through infinity.