Intelligence Quotes - Page 11

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.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do. It was a tall, conical wizard's model, covered with chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Genius is independent of situation.

I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit,
and it will out at the casement;
shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

You should totally get implants," she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. "I don't yet know what I'm going to do with my life, Diane. But I'm hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.