Quotes about Intelligence
It's not that you don't have the capacity to accept the truth. You don't want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness'' sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
- Ted Dekker
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
- St. Jerome
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
- Booker T. Washington
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
- Henry Ford
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
- Mark Twain
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
- Jacques Maritain
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
- William Hazlitt