3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

A woman's intelligence, talent, and gifts are a compliment not an insult to a man's masculinity.

Pretending to be wise is way more difficult than pretending not to be a fool.

If a crystal ball gives God any advantage, then you've got a stupid God.

Jika selama ini pernah terbesit di kepalamu bahwa engkau lebih pandai dan hebat dari mereka yang berada di sekelilingmu.Maka sesekali berkunjunglah ke kandang ayam, lantas tanyakan pada dirimu, mana lebih pandai antara engkau dan ayam jika itu perihal bertelur dan berkokok? Engkaukah? Atau ayam?Karena memang sejatinya kepandaian itu beragam, yang membedakan hanyalah bentuknya saja, dan hanya itu.

Intelligence is irrelevant

One thing I learned from this pandemic is never overestimate the intelligence of the American public.

If one chooses to call tests that require the mastery of abstractions culturally biased, because some cultures put more emphasis on abstractions than others, that raises fundamental questions about what the tests are for. In a world where the ability to master abstractions is fundamental to mathematics, science and other endeavors, the measurement of that ability is not an arbitrary bias. A culture-free test might be appropriate in a culture-free society—but there are no such societies.

TRUE BEAUTY IS MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF PEARLS WITHIN YOU, NOT AROUND YOUR NECK.

He finds he likes to be thought of as intelligent, if only because it makes his interactions with other people more legible. He likes when someone is struggling to remember the name of a book or an author, and he can provide it for them readily.