Quotes on Intelligence

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.