INTELLIGENCE QUOTES IV

quotations about intelligence

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

P. G. WODEHOUSE

Full Moon

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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Mortals and Others

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Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of the Affections", Les Caractères

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Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

ERICH FROMM

The Sane Society

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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

EMIL CIORAN

A Short History of Decay

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Intelligence is the starlight of the brain.

N. P. WILLIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Those natures are intellectual which, possessing intelligence, are objects of intelligence to others.

ZOROASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again.

PETER MEDAWAR

Advice to a Young Scientist