3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

Open-minded is the ability to look on both sides without taking side. Fanaticism must be put to death.

Advise a wise man, and he will listen to you.Advise a fool, and he will make fun of you.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

It is only the dumb beast that understands futile gestures – the cold necessity for them, in the face of all the hard truths. We who hold to the higher aspirations of the intellect, we surrender too quickly. And yet, in looking upon that dog – a creature knowing only loyalty and courage – we find flavours to wound our own souls.