Quotes about Intelligence

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

Dr. Samuel G. Morton, a Philadelphia physician, emerged with the head-size theory which affirmed that the larger the skull, the superior the individual. This theory was used by other ethnologists to prove that the large head size of Caucasians signified more intellectual capacity and more native worth. A

The call for intelligence is a call for openmindedness, sound judgment, and love for truth. It is a call for men to rise above the stagnation of closedmindedness and the paralysis of gullibility.

Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that I had at last met an antagonist who was my intellectual equal.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

To talk of rational beings apart from man is as if we attempted to talk of heavy beings apart from bodies.