Quotes about Intelligence
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
— James Madison
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
— Samuel Johnson
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
— Thomas a Kempis
On the contrary, Augustine says (Octog. Tri. Quaest. qu. xlvi),"Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
— Ben Stein
You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.
— Virginia Woolf
this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, ... upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly ... Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.
— Virginia Woolf
To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.
— Lao Tzu