Inteligence Quotes & Sayings

Inteligence lives longer than beauty. — Oscar Wilde

It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complexities, learn quickly, and benefit from experience, did not have very important implications. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could. — Gertrude Ederle

Here's a little thought experiment. Imagine that, on September 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers came down, the President of the United States was not George W. Bush, but Ann Coulter. What would have happened then? On September 12, President Coulter would have ordered the US military forces to drop 35 nuclear bombs throughout the Middle East, killing all of our actual and potential enemy combatants, and their wives and children. On September 13, the war would have been over and won, without a single American life lost. — Satoshi Kanazawa

There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe. — Fernando Pessoa

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive — Karl Lagerfeld

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. — Robert Reich

Don't do what you love, love what you do well. — Christopher Hart

As for working with a partner, he didn't like that either. It cut the score right down the middle. It put an apple on your head, and handed the other guy a shotgun. Because grifters, it seemed, suffered an irresistible urge to beat their colleagues. There was little glory in whipping a fool - hell, fools were made to be whipped. But to take a professional, even if it cost you in the long run, ah, that was something to polish your pride. — Jim Thompson

Lack of certification hardly proves inteligence — Cassandra Clare

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune. — Honore De Balzac

Don't you let go. Don't let go. Reach! — J.R.R. Tolkien

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. — Harold Coffin

If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is impossible to avoid the question for long. And if you are very intelligent, it is always there, persistently there, hammering on your heart for the answer: Give me the answer! - Why? — Rajneesh

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to read. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing. — Jim Butcher

How do you find a buried city in a vast landscape? Finding it randomly would be the equivalent of locating a needle in a haystack, blindfolded, wearing baseball mitts. — Sarah Parcak

Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets. — Beatrix Campbell

I'm afraid I can't let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that's about it. — Derek Landy