Intelligence Quotes - Page 5

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed,and very soon he has given out his all.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.

The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.