Quotes about intelligence
113 quotes from 85 people
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havnt and dont.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Apple Cart (1928), Act II am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell1887–1964The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891), Vol. 3, Ch. IX, State-Tamperings with Money and BanksIntelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 78Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Approaches to Politics (1970)Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Hocus Pocus (1990)
Simone Weil1909–1943Letter to her parents (1943), as quoted in the Introduction by Siân Miles- Simone Weil1909–1943Simone Weil: An Anthology (1986), p. 35
Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.
Simone Weil1909–1943Human Personality (1943), p. 69There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
