3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

How old you are has nothing to do with how wise, smart, or mature you've actually become.

The world is intelligent, the universe is wise.

Intelligence is the seed, understanding is the stem, knowledge is the roots, and wisdom is the tree.

After the dinosaurs, it is us the humans that have become the dominant species on planet earth. However, unlike the dinosaurs, we have become the rulers of this planet not by ferociousness, but by intelligence, even though we are no less ferocious than them.

When someone asks a question, don't assume they don't know the answer. Clever people will always test you.

The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual world. One who knows both Matter and Spirit is thus the true knower, and is a spiritually intelligent being.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

An intelligent mind who trust nothing but the intelligence will eventually face problems which intelligence won't solve.

Hard work eventually solves all problems, but to solve problems quickly you need intelligence.