Intelligence Quotes

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Debasish Mridha

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

Debasish Mridha

Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty.

Debasish Mridha

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

Debasish Mridha

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.

As an orangutan cannot embrace higher mathematics or comprehend the architecture and operation of a computer, we humans __ so good at loudly proclaiming our intelligence and applauding our own doltish displays of cerebral gymnastics __ cannot begin to understand the true structure and functioning of the Universe.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Michael Bassey Johnson

For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of the ceremonies of savagery, many absurd and unjust laws, and thousands of ideas inconsistent with known and demonstrated facts. To me it seemed almost a crime to teach that this record was written by inspired men; that slavery, polygamy, wars of conquest and extermination were right, and that there was a time when men could win the approbation of infinite Intelligence, Justice, and Mercy, by violating maidens and by butchering babes.

Robert G. Ingersoll

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Michael Bassey Johnson

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

Debasish Mridha

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Erol Ozan

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

Debasish Mridha

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.

Debasish Mridha

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

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!

Israelmore Ayivor

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

James C. Emlund

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

Shannon L. Alder

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Without love life will be barren field.

Debasish Mridha

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Love shows you the purpose but commitment gives you the courage.

Debasish Mridha

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.

Shannon L. Alder

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Michael Bassey Johnson

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Shannon L. Alder

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

Sha Li

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

Neal Stephenson

Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

Genereux Philip

Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG

Genereux Philip

I’m more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us.

Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)

Shannon L. Alder

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

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