3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

My mind rattled on fast as a machine sometimes, ran its own way without my participation. So I'd know the answer to the algebra problem but not the steps to that answer. Or what a poem like Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" meant but not ho to explain it.

There are some things a woman can just tell.

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

Al other creatures use their intelligence to survive. We use ours to destroy ourselves.

Nothing imaginative ever happens to five people at once, because each is up to only one-fifth of his personal intelligence and perception. A crowd is never equal to the intelligence of any one of its members.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

Ignorance will often fade given time, you have to work hard to remain stupid…

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.