Intelligence Quotes

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.