Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity. — Remy de Gourmont
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far… — Charlie Chaplin
No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose… — Cynthia Tucker
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their… — Hans Eysenck
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in… — Hugh Miller
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys… — Pliny the Elder
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,… — Victor Hugo
A precedent embalms a principle. — Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. — Benjamin Disraeli
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. — Benjamin Disraeli
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have… — Desiderius Erasmus
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. — Laurence J. Peter
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. — William Shakespeare
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. — James Russell Lowell
Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,… — Marcel Proust
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — Ezra Pound
The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never… — Ezra Pound

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