Famous Quotes About intelligence

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The universe is an intelligence test.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.