intelligence Quotes

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence... ...

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect... ...

A sign of a smart person is being able to consider an idea without immediately agreeing with it.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will... ...

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of... ...

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

Wit is educated insolence.