3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will, which people refer to as memory of the heart.

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shyness and antagonism so often felt by children towards grown-up people who 'pretend,' which causes them to suffer as painfully. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

I see the impossible work being done by of my friends at the federal agencies, the Pentagon, NATO, Five Eyes and the intelligence community. They are doing the impossible, for the ungrateful and with a fraction of the budgets required to render a viable defense.

You have to be brave when you are stupid.

- ...лишь тот, кто сам хоть немного разумен, способен слушаться разумных советов. (Трурль - Мандрильону Наибольшему, владыке множественников)("Сказка о трёх машинах-рассказчицах короля Гениалона")

Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly because social institutions no longer recognize or nurture genius, and partly because the modern West is actively hostile to genius.