3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

It’s an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn’t change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn’t a day that we don’t worry about those men who have survived the White House.

Intelligence uses knowledge to solve problems. More people can be proud of knowledge they have - fewer with intelligence. Everyone can get knowledge by holding one's attention for three seconds to gather it. Intelligence may require more than three seconds.

Conscience is much larger than plain, cold intelligence. Without the warmth of humanhood, intelligence brings more separation and loneliness in the society, than does religious fundamentalism.

I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood.

Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things - some sort of balancing of the scales offered by nature to those less favoured among her children - no, it is a superfluous plaything to enhance the value of a jewel.

Intelligence must be in the hands and feet as well as in the head.

To appear intelligent, we pretend to understand everything which is taught; but gets exposed when practicality demands testing of our learning. Remember! We become intelligent by understanding what we don’t understand, but should understand to make things better.

A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.