intelligence Quotes

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a...”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“I am a just man even to my enemy, and I will acknowledge beforehand that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.”

― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

topic:enemy intelligence

“I have long really held the opinion that the amount of noise which any one can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity, and therefore may be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:intelligence doubt

“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:children intelligence personality

“it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

topic:wisdom intelligence

“Human beings didn’t evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing’s the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we’d be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:intelligence killing

“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

topic:mind intelligence

“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:death youth intelligence

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