Intelligence Quotes

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

~ Chuck Klosterman

Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.

~ Criss Jami

I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap

~ Kirtida Gautam

On Intelligence:Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that make money. Corollary: Being a genius is antithetical to being successful unless you're a genius at being successful. Corollary: Being intelligent does not make you rich but it can keep you from being poor. Corollary: Intelligence leads to interests, mostly not gainful. Corollary: Intelligence is like molasses, with effort, it goes where you put it.Rubbers are best for those who refuse to use them. Corollary: Intelligence adds but stupidity multiplies. Corollary: Reverse evolution is the new norm.Only luck can save one from one's own stupidity.Only idiots regard a second chance the same as the first.The higher the IQ, the greater the chance of self-deception.Still waters are often shallow puddles.

~ Kalifer Deil

When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently. - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods

~ Jack Chalker

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the way of life journey.

~ Md. Mujib Ullah

But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to be triumphal. Harry Penn was certain that in his nearly one hundred years he had never encountered a soul more intensely marinated in self-satisfaction. Craig Binky's pomposity was often relieved, for others, by what Harry Penn generously termed Mr. Binky's somewhat inexact intelligence.

~ Mark Helprin

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

Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble.

~ Debasish Mridha

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

~ Genereux Philip

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

~ Criss Jami

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

~ Elena Ferrante

Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.

~ Genereux Philip

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

~ Genereux Philip

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

~ Criss Jami

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

~ Elon Musk

They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy. And if you do not have empathy, then you will not gain, learn and remember valuable knowledge from your experiences, or those around you, so that you one day become wise. Yet most importantly, wisdom comes from having a good memory. If you do not remember anything, or are so disconnected from basic humanism to even care to dissect lessons to be gained from every experience in your life and from those around you - using simple reason and the juggling of feelings, then wisdom will forever remain a faraway planet to you.

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ Genereux Philip

Most of us think that being authentic is about being true to what we want and who we are, without regard for the impact it has on others. On the contrary, the authentic self is an intelligence at the core of who we are that is inspired, centered, and connected to those we lead. When we are in this centered place of being we are able to choose behavior that serves the greatest good.

~ Henna Inam

If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.

~ Genereux Philip

What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?

~ Iain M. Banks

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

~ Christopher Buckley

[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Intelligence is what we learn. Wisdom is what we unlearn.

~ J.r. Rim

[D]umb evolutionary processes have dramatically amplified the intelligence in the human lineage even compared with our close relatives the great apes and our own humanoid ancestors, and there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system.

~ Nick Bostrom

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Genereux Philip

I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

~ Auliq Ice

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

~ David Brier

There are many things we don’t understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don’t ever let anybody tell you it can’t be done.

~ Sally Fryer Dietz

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.

~ Hasse Jerner

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

~ Amit Ray

What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

~ Laurent Schwartz

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

~ Criss Jami

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

~ Criss Jami

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

~ Mark Frost