Famous Quotes About intelligence

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.