3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

People are intelligent; it's their ideas that are stupid.

Le Cardinal's conclusion suprised him. L'Arche produced a collective intelligence that was greater than the sum of its parts; interaction between the able and the disabled produced points of view that were more sophisticated than either group reported on its own.

Look – what I'm getting at is no matter who or what you're dealing with, people build up meanings between themselves and the things around them. The important thing is whether this comes about naturally or not. Being bright has nothing to do with it. What matters is that you see things with your own eyes.

Why do people not give as much credit to beauty as to intelligence? Both are natural gifts, and both require lifelong care and polishing.

Is book smart the only smart that counts?

The most dangerous thing we can do with intelligence is to let it speak without being both chastised and informed by wisdom. For if we let it speak without the constraints and forbearance of wisdom, we will destroy ourselves. And in doing so, we will be so caught up in our ‘intelligence’ that we won’t even realize that it’s ‘us’ that’s killing ‘us.

I rarely see intelligence used intelligently.

My mind is my sword.

Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.