Joseph Joubert Quotes

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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

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.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

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

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I.Q. or the like.

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

My mind is my biggest asset.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.