Quotes on “intelligence”

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.