Quotes about Intelligence
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
— George Washington
Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Never memorize something that you can look up.
— Albert Einstein
The substitution of so-called "practical" preaching for the doctrinal exposition which it has supplanted is the root cause of many of the evil maladies which now afflict the church of God. The reason why there is so little depth, so little intelligence, so little grasp of the fundamental verities of Christianity, is because so few believers have been established in the faith, through hearing expounded and through their own personal study of the doctrines of grace.
— AW Pink
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
— Maya Angelou
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
— Wayne Dyer
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
— Mother Angelica
If a crystal ball gives God any advantage, then you've got a stupid God.
— Gregory Boyd