Thelma Ritter Quotes

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

Intelligence is a critical thing.