Best 1657 quotes in «intelligence quotes» category

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Looks fade. Brains don't.

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.