Intelligence Quotes - Page 8

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.