Quotes about Intelligence
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.
— Calvin Coolidge
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
— Carl Jung
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
— Myles Munroe
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
— Phillips Brooks
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
— Aristotle
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
— James Madison
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had
— Samuel Johnson