Intelligence Is Measured Quotes & Sayings

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn. — Francesca Zappia

Nothing important in this world is measured by grades. Intelligence, character, integrity, success, happiness - do you want these things, or do you want to struggle with the arbitrary difference between an A minus and a B plus? — Ryan Quinn

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A man shouldn't be measured by looks, attire, or finances.
A man should be measured by his character, actions, and intelligence.
-Nate Spears — Nate Spears

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. — Paul Dirac

Intelligence is not found when you have a plan, rather it's measured when you have no clue what you're doing. — Charlie 'Gale'

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex. — Aiden Shaw

No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You've been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it." Nick did not bother trying to deny it. "I was going to be so much smarter than you," he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. "I prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a man's intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive. — Lisa Kleypas

Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away. — Debasish Mridha

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell. — Paget Brewster

The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a single linear scale has caused untold harm to our society in general, and to education in particular. — Neil Postman

Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation. — Debasish Mridha

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart. — Lucian Bane

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured. — Alfred Binet

Ironically, Alfred Binet, one of the creators of the IQ test, intended the test to serve precisely the opposite function. In fact, he originally designed it (on commission from the French government) exclusively to identify children with special needs so they could get appropriate forms of schooling. He never intended it to identify degrees of intelligence or "mental worth." In fact, Binet noted that the scale he created "does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured." Nor did he ever intend it to suggest that a person could not become more intelligent over time. "Some recent thinkers," he said, "[have affirmed] that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we must try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing. — Ken Robinson

One of my friends compared me to Bruce Banner, due to my work with radiation and human health. So I looked up Bruce Banner and this is what I found: Banner, a physicist, is sarcastic and seemingly very self-assured when he first appears in Incredible Hulk #1, but is also emotionally withdrawn in most fashions ... Banner is considered one of the greatest scientific minds on Earth, possessing "a mind so brilliant it cannot be measured on any known intelligence test." He holds expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, physiology, and nuclear physics. — Steven Magee

I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise. — Peter Salovey

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive. — Kimberly Adams Stedronsky

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time. — Debasish Mridha

The way to defeat international terrorism is through international cooperation based on international law, clear intelligence, and a measured and appropriate military response. — Charles Kennedy

Dolphins have one of the highest ratios of brain size to body mass in the animal kingdom. Measured in this way, a dolphin's brain is second in size only to that of a human's, and well above that of our closest genetic relative, the chimpanzee. A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it's not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence. — Virginia Morell

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. — John F. Akers