Intelligence Quotes · Page 144

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

— Carlos Castaneda

“Nothing makes a smart man stupid like a thirst for vengeance.”

— Elementary

Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome.

— Saadi

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

— Karl Kraus

It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so

— Ronald Reagan

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

— Ron Greenwood

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

— Desi Arnaz

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

— Billy Sunday

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

— Albert Einstein

“Technically, you don't pay me. And technically, most of what I do is "think." I...rrr. ummm. And when you get right down…

— Howard Tayler

“We are all genius in our own way. Never stop trying to find your inner know-it-all because it's in all of us.”

— Jazmin Bois

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor…

— H L Mencken

“So long as you are in God's hands, He will not throw you away. God cannot drop you for you to be…

— Patience Johnson

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

— Anonymous

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to…

— Travis Bradberry

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate…

— Bill Gates

“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can…

— John Bagot Glubb

These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed…

— George W. Bush

We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way.…

— Walt Disney

I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect…

— Anonymous

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest…

— Louisa May Alcott

“What about the role of the CIA in a democratic society? Is that an oxymoron? You could imagine a democratic society with…

— Noam Chomsky

“There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.”

— Stephanie Rowe

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

— Mark Twain

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

— Donald Trump

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

— Scott Aukerman

Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.”

— Don DeLillo

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

— James Russell Lowell

Disappointment happens for a reason and teaches us a lesson.

— Anonymous

“Love needs no reasons, itself is reason and result”

— Mohamed Khalaf

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

— Swami Vivekananda

Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability

— Anonymous

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

— Caroline Myss

There is a reason for everything but I don't know why I'm with you.

— Damian Coleman

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

— Madeleine Albright