Quotes about Intelligence

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

There is a great difference between identifying a problem and solving it, between wisdom and the wise life. We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

These are classic insiders—the fussy traditionalists who operate close to the center and seldom break with convention. In such traditionalistic organizations, intelligence and decision making tend to be drawn out from the reservoir of inherited wisdom. These inherited ideas are seen to be inviolable, even sacrosanct.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.