Quotes by Intelligence The mind does not take its complexion from the skin. Frederick Douglass intelligenceintellectualteaching It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. Fyodor Dostoevsky crime-and-punishmentintelligencelife-changing Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Fyodor Dostoevsky intelligenceintelligentmen In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche intelligenceorderknowledge When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. George D. Prentice intelligencemenlong It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. George Bernard Shaw intelligencestatisticsintelligent We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell intelligenceintelligentmen It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. George Eliot intelligenceintellectualmen Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana aweintelligencevision Education is understanding relationships. George Washington Carver intelligenceeducationalunderstanding In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. Gerald Holton intelligenceintellectualsuccess When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence. Giacomo Casanova intelligencefoolblow Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. George Santayana intelligencewisdommen A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton intelligenceintuitionsupport Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous. Gloria Steinem intelligenceinstinctpoor The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. Groucho Marx tongueintelligenceintellectual It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good. Harold Prince intelligenceguyclass An artist is a person who has invented an artist. Harold Rosenberg intelligenceintellectualartist It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. Harriet Beecher Stowe intelligencemindappreciation You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live. George Bernard Shaw intelligencepoetryimagination«1234567891011»
