3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a thing she feared: being asked to do anything else.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.