Intelligence Quotes · Page 101

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

— Anonymous

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.

— Meg Cabot

“There aren't always answers. There isn't always a reason.”

— Mariah Stewart

“But sometimes, even a smart woman can have her guilty pleasure moment. Watching infotainment, it is.”

— Nina Ardianti

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

— Wallace D. Wattles

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You need to be smart about what you put in your body.

— Stacy Keibler

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

— Neale Donald Walsch

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

— Gillian Anderson

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

— Marcus Aurelius

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her…

— Carole King

Your the reason why I want to go to school! Your the reason I live! Your my everything! And I think I…

— Dianna Tellez

“You know, if you're going to be a smart ass, you should start by being smart. Otherwise, you're really just an ass.”

— Christine Zolendz

“But there are a lot of people with talent and passion, and many of them never get anywhere. This is only the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Remember your Plato, Maeve. ‘If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O…

— Bhagavad Gita

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way…

— Dalai Lama

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence…

— Dalai Lama

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,…

— René Descartes

Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I…

— Bob Beckel

“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.”

— E.L. Konigsburg

“Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.”

— Aristotle

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

— David Lindsay

“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness.”

— Agatha Christie

If you're going to be a smartass first you have to be smart, otherwise you're just being an ass!

— Anonymous

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

— Abhishek Bachchan

We meet for a reason either you're a blessing or a lesson

— Arlene Enego

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

— Lara St. John

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!

— Selena Gomez

“You cannot learn intelligence, you either have it or you don't.”

— Clive Barry

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

— Jane Austen

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

— Andrew Tobias

It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.

— Theo Epstein

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

— Terry Goodkind

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

— Anonymous

We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

— Robert M. Sapolsky