To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Truth is the sun of intelligence.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an intelligence.
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Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
The enlightenment of understanding makes man smarter, but not better.
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.
That's what a genius is: an intelligence that knows its limits.
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools for making tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
Intelligence is a moral category.
When we are not intelligible, we are not intelligent.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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