Quotes about Intelligence

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Computers are really, basically, computing elements and a lot of memory. They are pretty easy to understand, as compared to the brain, which was designed by evolution.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.