Quotes on “intelligence”

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

belief is the death of intelligence.

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

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy, said my father as he watched the three beauties. But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.