Quotes about Intelligence
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
- Publilius Syrus
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
- Samuel Johnson
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
- Samuel Johnson
But it is none the less true that men do not come to God by way of their own reason; neither do they in this way get near to him, because all their intelligence is but vanity. Whence
- John Calvin
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
- John Calvin
I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.
- Muhammad Ali
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.
- St. Augustine
I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.
- Donald Trump
A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.
- Carl Jung