Intelligence Quotes

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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.

She has man's brain-a brain that a man should have were he much gifted-and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.