Quotes About Intelligence

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

It's pretty clear that machine learning is going to a big part of science and engineering.

If I can be smart off the court, then I have to believe that will bleed onto the court.

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.

Intelligence seems to blossom in the barest ground.

America thinks if you're fat, you're stupid. That's great. I want them to keep thinking that. Let them keep on thinking that because the truth is, the expectations are blown away even more when you realize what I'm saying and doing.

Bob Baffert is not stupid.

Do people think women from Bollywood aren't smart?

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.

I can speak at length and use my brain. It's nice to be able to show that side of me.

But if God wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.