3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Wisdom is from God. Anything outside that is intellect.

Don't let your husband feel you are a 'dear little woman' but no good intellectually. If you find yourself getting stale, wake up your brain. Let there be nothing your husband can talk about that you will be unable to understand.Don't profess to know nothing about politics. Any man who is worth his salt does care, and many men learn to despise women as a whole because their wives take such an unintelligent attitude.

Nothing is as it seems. Seeing is not believing. Sometimes... you have to feel, touch, experience... and use your intelligence.

Evolution has performed experiment after experiment and found simple rules that work well in many contexts. It has downloaded much of this knowledge into our DNA. This comprises 10 megabytes, a very compact description indeed of such a complex world. I argue that this understanding arises from exploiting this compact description of the world

It’s like fitting a hand-me-down suit. It’s luck. Not love. Not that it isn’t nice to have luck. Maybe the only way to think of it is being at the center of all beauty. Just by chance, today we get to be in the center of all beauty.

Static knowledge is useless if not made Kinetic.

There are ever further questions for intelligence pushing up towards a fuller understanding and ever further doubts urging us to a fuller truth.

Now I know that speaking good English is not the measure of intelligent mind and sharp brain. English is only a language, like Yoruba and Igbo and Hausa. Nothing about it is so special, nothing about it makes anybody have sense.

It is conducive to serenity to see the vast majority of people as the children they are spiritually and intellectually.