“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
Intelligence comes in more flavors than IQ tests can measure. These quotes explore different kinds of smarts — emotional, creative, street, academic — and the humbling realization that the smartest people are usually the ones who know how much they do not know.
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.”
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”
“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”
“Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.”
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
“I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.”
“Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.”
“You have to be smart. The easy days are over.”