Quotes about Intelligence
a smart person believes only half of what he hears, but a really smart person knows which half to believe.
— John Maxwell
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
— Rose Kennedy
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
— Carl Sagan
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
— CS Lewis
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
— Henry Ford
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
— Mark Twain
What I mean is, if we aren't learning, we are forgetting, if we aren't getting smart, we are becoming dull. The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it's true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn't a lot of competition.
— Donald Miller
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!
— John Keats
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
— John Lennon
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
— Anonymous