Top Intelligence Quotes

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate peri...

I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital fo...

Intelligence Definition

(n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

(n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

(n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

(n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

(n.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

(n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Wit is educated insolence.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forge...

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing a...

Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusio...

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.