Intelligence

"Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition."

"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun."

"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."

"If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?"

"Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us."

"What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive."

"I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance."

"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."

"Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty."

"You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won’t be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most."

"It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything."

"The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields."

"Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else."

"But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body."

"If reason ruled the world would history even exist?"

"Every true genius is bound to be naive."

"The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."

"We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose."

"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."

"Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military."