Quotes about Intelligence
Hey man, can you talk to dolphins and pilot whales with that huge forehead of yours?
- Tucker Max
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
- Thomas a Kempis
On the contrary, Augustine says (Octog. Tri. Quaest. qu. xlvi),"Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
- Ben Stein
You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.
- Virginia Woolf
this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, ... upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly ... Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.
- Virginia Woolf
To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
- Lao Tzu
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes — - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.
- Charles Colson