Quotes about Intelligence

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Seeing that our birth involves the blending of these two things—the body, on the one hand, that we share with animals, and, on the other hand, rationality and intelligence, that we share with the gods—most of us incline to this former relationship, wretched and dead though it is, while only a few to the one that is divine and blessed.

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.