Intelligence Quotes

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Pedir perdón es humillante y no arregla nada. La solución no es pedir perdón, sino evitar los estallidos que hacen obligatorias las excusas”
― Mario Benedetti, La muerte y otras sorpresas

“But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Flight Of The Eagle

“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.”
― Lyman Bryson

“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”
― Alexei Maxim Russell, Why Not-World

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.”
― James Morcan, Lance Morcan, The Ninth Orphan

“Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

“Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.”
― craig ferguson

“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world.

1. He divorced the mother of his children, which caused Mileva, his wife, to have a break down and be hospitalized.

2.He was a ladies man and was known to have had several affairs; infidelity was listed as a reason for his divorce.

3.He married his cousin.

4.He had an estranged relationship with his son.

5. He had his first child out of wedlock.

6. He urged the FDR to build the Atom bomb, which killed thousands of people.

7. He was Jewish, yet he made many arguments for the possibility of God. Yet, hypocritically he did not believe in the Jewish God or Christianity. He stated, “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“If you think this Dr. Williams’ files contain what we want, you need to find a way to confiscate the entire file. You must go to a copy store, scan the documents, and save them to a USB. Can you arrange to get this information after hours, make the copies, and return it to where you found it?”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is going on, and therefore, generally speaking, you don’t. Hence the sure-fire way to simplify social arrangements, to ignore the incredibly complex play of perspectives, passions, insights, desires, and mutual understandings that human life is really made of, is to make a rule and threaten to attack anyone who breaks it. This is why violence has always been the favored recourse of the stupid: it is the one form of stupidity to which it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. It is also of course the basis of the state.”
― David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.”
― George Eliot (Middlemarch)

“Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.”
― Kelli Jae Baeli

“Genius is independent of situation.”
― Charles Churchill

“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”
― Simon Morden, Theories of Flight

“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“للذكاء حدود .. للغباء لأ”
― عمر طاهر, أقوال برما

“While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
of those who believe in a single general
intelligence has come to an end. Brain
scientists and geneticists are documenting
the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.”
― Howard Gardner, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century