Quotes about Intelligence

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the evil maladies which now afflict the church of God. The reason why there is so little depth, so little intelligence, so little grasp of the fundamental verities of Christianity, is because so few believers have been established in the faith, through hearing expounded and through their own personal study of the doctrines of grace.

Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devoted to the subject. For

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.