3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Never confuse being opinionated with having something to say.

Democracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it requires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make ourselves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign.

Don’t be a sapiosexual, be a sapiosensual. This is why I say I consider myself a sapiosensual (a term I just made up) because I DON’T LOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE IN A PERSON, I LOOK FOR SOUL, DEPTH, PASSION, VULNERABILITY AND SENSUALITY. All these equates to AUTHENTICITY to me. So, yes, I’m probably snobbish too, I judge a person on how I feel about their authenticity.

Why are dumb brutes so damned smart, anyway?''Why are us smart folk so often stupidly brutal, Quick Ben?' Trull asked.'Stop trying to confuse me in my state of animal terror, Edur.

But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case.

How do you know when you're getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn't it?

Man’s greatness come from knowing he wretched: a tree does not know it is wretched. (21)

Upon hearing of the story of Glenn Gould, I felt an affinity with him. He spent most of his time in a cabin on Lake Simcoe, was a tremendous pianist, and later in life took obscene amounts of prescribed medications for illnesses, which may or may not have been correctly diagnosed, resultant of his brilliant, but tumultuous mind.”.

Intelligence can create nothing without action.