3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

A lot is said about the serious by the fact that the most intelligent person around is almost always the most playful.

But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.

Play is fun, but is also meaningful and complex. The more intelligent the animal, the more it plays.

This sort of information gathering is precisely what we call play. And the important function of play is thus revealed: it permits us to gain, without any particular future application in mind, a holistic understanding of the world, which is both a complement of and a preparation for later analytical activities.

Fine words have the power to make even the stupidest person sound intelligent.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.

To improve intelligence, you must study at a deeper level, and you must be disciplined passionate, that's what matters.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.