Sayings about Intelligence
Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question. ~ Chinese Proverb
A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is really a fool. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
Intelligence is the best capital. ~ German Proverbs
You don’t need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~ Jewish Proverbs
Where there is a glut of words, there is a dearth of intelligence. ~ Indian Proverbs
Bravery without intelligence is not bravery. ~ Arabian Proverb
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food. ~ Chinese Proverb
He who has no intelligence is happy with it. ~ South African Proverb
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
Friendship is love with intelligence. ~ German Proverb
The child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Speaking French is no proof of intelligence. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
The first decision of a woman is the most intelligent and the last decision most dangerous. ~ Chinese Proverb
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence. ~ Chinese Proverb
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise. ~ German Proverb
Over-intelligent people can’t find friends. ~ Japanese Proverb
Habit is the intelligence of the crowd. ~ German Proverb
The best horse needs a whip, intelligent men need advice, and devout women need a man. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful. ~ Chinese Proverb
Any fool can say “Ah” — you need intelligence to say “Yes.” ~ Tibetan Proverbs
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ~ Malcolm X
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ~ Susan Sontag
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. ~ Elbert Hubbard
People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. ~ Robyn Hitchcock
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.~ Albert Einstein
You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.~ Sidney A. Friedman
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. ~ Stephen Hawking
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell
If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast. ~ Amber Valletta
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more. ~ Ed Parker
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.~ Marya Mannes
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. ~ Henrik Tikkanen
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The role of the intelligence — that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ~ Simone Weil
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.~ Haneef Fatmi
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ~ Goethe
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ~ Edward De Bono
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~ Albert Edward Wiggam
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. ~ Laurence J. Peter
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligence is the art of good guesswork. ~ H.B.Barlown
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways including as one’s capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.~ More!