QUOTES ABOUT INTELLIGENCE: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL QUOTES ABOUT THIS QUALITY

If you think about what intelligence really is, you will tend to come up with a definition similar to this: "the ability of an agent to successfully deal with and solve new or unknown situations and problems." However, this quality is not only human. it has always been the subject of various discussions by scientists, philosophers, psychologists and even writers. In fact, it seems that we cannot speak of a "standard intelligence, but of a set of elements that" make it up "whose level must be assessed , including creativity.

We have collected the most famous phrases about intelligence. They range from quotes that try to define this quality to those that demonstrate how, despite being very important, intelligence cannot work if it is not combined with other qualities.

Aphorisms on intelligence and its definition

What does intelligence really consist of? In these sentences we can find the various attempts of past and present authors to answer this question.

The ability to observe without judging is the highest form of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

They say that intelligence is in noting that things are relevant. In a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring irrelevant things.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges

Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is having the right question.
Anonymous

We were given intelligence so that we could doubt.
Intelligence is given to us to doubt.
Émile Verhaeren

One of the possible abstract definitions of intelligence is the ability to find connections between different things, sometimes even very different ones.
Edoardo Boncinelli

Intelligence is not about not making mistakes, but about finding out how to make a profit right away.
Bertolt Brecht

Intelligence is the faculty by which we finally understand that everything is incomprehensible: and we look at things from the bottom of human illusion.
Maurice Maeterlinck

The intelligence of an individual is measured by the quality of uncertainties that it is capable of enduring.
Immanuel Kant

Intelligence often coincides with open-mindedness, with being able to see things also from another perspective. Only people with this ability will be able to solve the problems of the world.
Stefano Nasetti

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful quotes on intelligence as a main quality

Where the body cannot or can no longer reach, the mind and intelligence take care of it. Precisely for this reason, it is considered as the key quality of every man, as long as it is exploited in the correct way.

I lost my sight a little, my hearing a lot. At conferences I don't see projections and I don't hear well. But I think more now than when I was twenty. The body does what it wants. I am not the body: I am the mind.
Rita Levi-Montalcini

The sum of intelligence on Earth is constant; The population is growing.
Arthur Bloch

Irony and intelligence are blood sisters.
Jean Paul

It is not intelligent who reads myriad books but who knows how to read into everyday situations.
Stefano Benni

Our biggest toy is the brain.
Charlie Chaplin

Phrases on when intelligence becomes a "defect"

However, there are philosophers and writers who have seen intelligence from another point of view and have concluded that it is not always a gift. In fact, being intelligent can lead to a higher understanding of things by making you run. more often the risk of being hurt or disappointed. Furthermore, human intelligence has led in the course of history to ephemeral and unforgivable crimes, committed only thanks to this capacity of the intellect combined with feelings such as hatred, revenge and resentment.

In the face of fools and imbeciles, there is only one way to reveal one's intelligence: that of not talking to them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

One of the misfortunes of very intelligent people is that they cannot help but understand everything: the vices as well as the virtues.
Honoré De Balzac

Three quarters of intelligent people's illnesses come from their intelligence.
Marcel Proust

It doesn't do any good to be smart. It would be better to be blond and beautiful.
Agota Kristof

Since we define ourselves as intelligent, even if perhaps with unfounded reasons, we try to consider intelligence an inevitable consequence of evolution, instead it is questionable whether this is so. Bacteria do just fine without it and will survive us if our so-called intelligence induces us to self-destruct in a nuclear war.
Stephen Hawking

Today, for the superiorly intelligent man, there is no other way than abdication.
Fernando Pessoa

The more intelligence you have, the more you will suffer.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The best aphorisms about smart people

What is special about intelligent people? How do they see the world, how do they reveal this ability and why can they be said to be gifted with intelligence? These quotes from the great authors try to find an answer to all this.

The word "intelligent" comes from the Latin, comes from "intus" plus "legere": "to read inside". The intelligent person is the one who knows how to look inside things, inside people, inside facts.
Alessandro D'Avenia

There are painters who paint the sun as a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

A person is not superior because he is smarter, but because he knows how to use his intelligence.
Marcela Farias Hernandez

Smart people are always the best conversation manual.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Make sure you don't just call like-minded people smart.
Ugo Ojetti

The advantage of being intelligent is that you can always be an idiot, while the opposite is completely impossible.
Woody Allen

The difference between a genius and a fool is that genius has limits.
Albert Einstein

When one thinks a lot and intelligently, not only his face but also his body acquires an intelligent aspect.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The problem with humanity is that the stupid are overconfident, while the intelligent are full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Men of genius sometimes accomplish more when they work less, because they are thinking about inventions and forming the perfect idea in their minds which they later express with their hands.
Leonardo da Vinci

The more intelligent one is, the more people one finds original: ordinary people see no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal

The intelligent man is the one who maintains his intelligence at a temperature independent of the temperature of the environment in which he lives.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Being smart means being wary, even about yourself.
Paul Léautaud

Quotes about when intelligence alone is not enough

Although intelligence is important, this does not mean that it alone is not enough. It must be combined with other qualities to really see its fruits, even non-rational qualities.Without creativity, emotion, love and the ability to dream, intelligence becomes empty and devoid of purpose.

A good head and a good heart are always a terrific combination. But when you add an educated language or pen to it, then you really have something special.
Nelson Mandela

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Salvador Dalí

The mixture of goodness and intelligence is the most interesting show known. Not surprisingly, it is the least frequent.
Manuel Neila

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no intelligence without emotion. There can be emotion without much intelligence, but it doesn't concern us.
Ezra Pound

Man is a genius when he dreams.
Akira Kurosawa

We must be careful not to make the intellect our god; it obviously has powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Being intelligent is a prerequisite for the expression of creativity, but being fully creative implies the possession of qualities distinct from those that contribute to the expression of intelligence.
Edoardo Boncinelli

There are things that intelligence is capable of looking for, but which, alone, it will never find.
Henri Bergson

Ironic and irreverent phrases about intelligence

Finally, we conclude with a series of funny and sarcastic phrases. In most of them, intelligence is related to stupidity and there is no shortage of aphorisms decisively women empowerment where the intelligent being of the woman is compared to that of the male.

The average intelligence of the human species is low, and one shivers to think that half of human beings are statistically even more stupid than the average.
George Carlin

It takes a lot of tests to prove you're smart, but one just to prove you're stupid.
Anonymous

A beautiful woman is forgiven everything. Even intelligence.
Cristina Prina

Intelligence: when you realize that your boss's reasoning is wrong. Wisdom: when you avoid letting him know.
James Dent

We live in an age where people, so busy producing, have forgotten to become intelligent.
Oscar Wilde

The clearest proof that there are other intelligent life forms in the universe is that none of them have ever tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

If men were handsome and intelligent, they would be called women.
Audrey Hepburn

There are many types of intelligence, but only one type of stupidity.
Anonymous

It's not that I'm that smart, it's just that I stick with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

The largest untapped territory in the world lies under your hat.
Harvey B. Macka

If men were handsome and intelligent, they would be called women.
Audrey Hepburn

It is easier for the computer to imitate our intelligence than our particular forms of stupidity
Aaron Haspel

I get smart when I need it. But most men don't like it.
Marylin Monroe

Man is the most intelligent animal. Man is the one who draws up this ranking.
Arthur Bloch

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not sure of the universe.
Albert Einstein