Intelligence Quotes
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mindabout nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
