Intelligence Quotes - Page 14

Il ne faut pas désespérer les imbéciles, avec un peu d'entraînement on peut en faire des militaires.

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that."
"Thank you," she said.
"As good as a man's," he added.
"Oh, now you've spoiled it!

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Wer kann es sagen, wer nur ahnen, wie weit das Geistesvermögen der Tiere geht!

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

A positive needs a negative to complete its cycle, as the Moon needs an embodiment of itself, the Sun, to complete the cycle of its illusory essence, the Earth. Now if the earth is in dire straits, is bombing the moon to discover whether water is ‘perceived’ in the natural stance of humans an intelligent move?

I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.

Muscle is good, but craft is better

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Ser optimista o pesimista es cuestion de temperamento, no de razones.

People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.