Quotes about Intelligence

How would you describe your personality?" Look for how accurately the person describes what you are observing and how introspective he is. Smart people generally know themselves and find it interesting to talk about their behavioral strengths and weaknesses. People who seem stumped or surprised by this question might not be terribly smart when it comes to people.

Lack of empathy is associated with intelligence, to the point that there is even something of a fashion for it in some places.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing.

Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.