INTELLIGENCE

Related Subjects: Cleverness, Common Sense, Education, Genius, Idea, Instinct, Intellectuals, Knowledge, Metaphysics, Mind, Philosophy, Reason, Thought, Wisdom

1. Intelligence is characterized by a natural lack of comprehension of life.—BERGSON
   

2. A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

3. There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.—MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
   

4. The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

5. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.—SCHOPENHAUER
   

6. He has not so much brain as ear-wax.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
   

7. The march of intellect.—SOUTHEY, Colloquies
   

8. Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without the use of intelligence.—A. E. WIGGAM, The New Decalogue of Science