Intelligence Quotes

3172 quotes by 1911 authors

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two… — Joseph Heller
I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence. — Alice Walker
You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for… — Charles Baxter
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put… — Dan Brown
In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any… — James E. Faust
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness… — Bertrand Russell
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a… — Robert Kennedy
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in… — H.G. Wells
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in… — John Dewey
When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. — Confucius
All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to… — Norman Doidge
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can… — Bertrand Russell
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. — Nick Hornby
If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of… — Margaret Cho
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness. — Scott Adams
Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit. — Charlotte Bronte
Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy." Cat — Jeaniene Frost

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