Quotes on Intelligence

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.