Quotes about Intelligence

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

He likes to wear bow ties so we'll all know how intelligent he is. Personally, I've seen Post-it notes with more depth.

That boy's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.

I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who believe and tremble has one.

I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

We have only to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.