Quotes and Sayings About Intelligence
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
-- Abigail Adams -
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.
-- Alafair Burke -
Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
-- Alan Sugar -
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
-- Albert Camus -
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
-- Albert Camus -
The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.
-- Alexander Blok -
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
-- Alice James -
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
-- Anna Katharine Green -
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
-- Anthony Burgess -
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
-- Aristotle -
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
-- Bertrand Russell -
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'
-- Bertrand Russell -
Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
-- Blaise Pascal
