Intelligence Quotes - Page 13

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.

Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw - I don't say she will but she can.

My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known a man to leave a desk for a muck-stick if he could avoid it.

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never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.

Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that, if you need a new and unfamiliar VCR programmed in a hurry, you commandeer any small passing child to do it.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.

There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are here to do the bidding of our Lord Almighty, but it is through deeds, as well as piety, that we serve Him.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.