3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

We can dig holes, fill holes or live a life of doing neither by causing neither.

We equate wisdom with intelligence, which is about the same as equating a can opener with a can. If you don’t apply the first to the second, neither of them matter.

Oh. Yes. He's very bright. But the world, poor world, was as over-burdened with cleverness as with stupidity, and in a sense (lacking this), did they not amount to the very same thing? Oh, he's clever, Clare thought, but who's good? Who's good? Who is good?

L'hésitation est le propre de l'intelligence.

Împărțită deopotrivă, forța omenească produce proști sau mediocritate pretudindeni; inegală însă, dă naștere acestor ciudățenii cărora li se dă numele de "geniu" și care, dacă ar putea fi văzute cu ochii, ar părea niște diformități.

Worship thee Almighty & ye shall have all virtues, morals and success. He will increase your knowledge into the unseen, unknown but abides in all. Open thy conscience with intent. Ye shall harbor whatever fruits harbors thy.

When we war against nature, we war against ourselves. There is no distinction, no dividing line, no enemy. We devour everything in a lust for self-destruction. As if that is intelligence’s only gift.

Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.

I am trying to use reason and intelligence," said the strange new mongoose."Reason is six-sevenths of treason," said one of his neighbors."Intelligence is what the enemy uses," said another.