577 Quotes About Intelligent

In most cases, it becomes very difficult to persuade someone to acknowledge the truth simply because his mind is already full of his own "truth". In order to see what is going on around you, you should intentionally keep a part of your mind "empty". Emptiness doesn't always mean that you are less intelligent, rather, it means that you are always open for new propositions, ideas, thought. It is impossible to add something new to what is already full.

I don't start riots. I start ideas, influence thought, and incite intelligent actions.

The Turkish nation's character is nobleThe Turkish nation is industriousThe Turkish nation is intelligent.

Stupidity is not intelligence ‘without’ wisdom. Rather, it’s intelligence ‘without the desire’ for wisdom, which is stupidity at its finest.

A person who thinks that he is both powerful and intelligent is not at least one of them.

But for some reason or other Curwen did not care for society. Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane. There seemed to lurk in his bearing some cryptic, sardonic arrogance, as if he had come to find all human beings dull through having moved among stranger and more potent entities.

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!