Intelligence Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“You don’t have to be a genius when you’re surrounded by morons.’
– Josh Lieb

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.”
– Mary Pettibone Poole

“The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no difference between men.”
– Pascal

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.”
– Robert J. Shiller

“A mind too active is no mind at all.”
– Theodore Roethke

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
– Chinua Achebe

“Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.”
– Douglas Adams

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence–beginning with one’s own.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
– James Truslow Adams

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
– John Quincy Adams

“There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as ‘nutty methods.’ Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time.”
– Scott Adams

“I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.”
– John Fellows Akers

“An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction”
– Hoshang N. Akter

“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”
– Edward Albee

“I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.”
– Woody Allen

“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
– Maya Angelou

“For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”
– Maya Angelou

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
– Moshe Arens

“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”
– Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron

“God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.”
– Saint Augustine

“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.”
– Sri da Avabhas

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