Intellectual Ability Quotes

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

A second-class intellect—but a first-class temperament!

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for the people and who can represent Singapore on the greater world stage.

The most brilliant statesman who ever lived, possessing the loftiest and keenest intellect of his time.

I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.