3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.

He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.

Ignorance is poor. Understanding is rich. Intelligence is wealthy. Wisdom is affluent.

Intelligence is the crown that wisdom wears at its coronation.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?