3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.