Inteligence Quotes

“Inteligence lives longer than beauty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complexities, learn quickly, and benefit from experience, did not have very important implications.”
― Hans Eysenck, Intelligence: A New Look

“Durante aquel trayecto hacia via Orazio, de un modo claro, empecé a sentirme como una extraña, infeliz por mi propia extrañeza. Me había criado con aquellos muchachos, consideraba normales sus comportamientos, su lengua violenta era también la mía. Pero desde hacía seis años seguía a diario un camino del que ellos lo ignoraban todo y que yo encaraba de forma brillante, tanto que era la más capaz. Con ellos no podía usar nada de lo que aprendía todos los días; debía contenerme, y, en cierto modo, autodegradarme. Con ellos me veía obligada a poner entre paréntesis lo que yo era en el colegio o a utilizarlo a traición, para intimidarlos. Me pregunté qué hacía en ese coche.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“Meditation is the power of the mind to think nothing even when surrounded by anxious people, chaotic situations, and belligerent media.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The high brain capacity of the Cro-Magnons is paralleled by that of the ancient Greeks, who in a single century gave to the world out of their small population much more genius than all the other races of mankind have since succeeded in producing in a similar length of time.”
― Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History