3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

As a teacher, the desire to teach is valuable, but the desire to educate is priceless.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

Peace and happiness are our eternal desires.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

If there is a lesson here it has to do with humility. For all our vaunted intelligence and complexity, we are not the sole authors of our destinies or of anything else. You may exercise diligently, eat a medically fashionable diet, and still die of a sting from an irritated bee. You may be a slim, toned paragon of wellness, and still a macrophage within your body may decide to throw in its lot with an incipient tumor.

She would be quite bright, if she was ever put in a position to find out, but long ago found that being a scatterbrain, as she'd put it, give you an easier journey through life.