Intelligence Quotes - Page 2

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.