Quotes About Intelligence

Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit.

We feel, perhaps unconsciously, that learning from Masters and submitting to their authority is somehow an indictment of our own natural ability, Even if we have teachers in our lives, we tend not to pay full attention to their advice, often preferring to do things our own way. In fact, we come to believe that being critical of Masters or teachers is somehow a sign of our intelligence, and that being a submissive pupil is a sign of weakness.

For Pericles it would be nous, the ancient Greek word for "mind" or "intelligence." Nous is a force that permeates the universe, creating meaning and order. The human mind is naturally attracted to this order; this is the source of our intelligence. For

This kind of feigned naturalness has countless applications in daily life, where nothing is more dangerous than looking smarter than the next person; the Natural pose is the perfect way to disguise your cleverness. But if you are uncontrollably childish and cannot turn it off, you run the risk of seeming pathetic, earning not sympathy but pity and disgust.

Brother, Cap said, he's a Pig-nut! Pig-nut? I asked. Pig-nut, Cap repeated. You can tell a man with brains he's wrong and he'll try to fix things up: but you take and tell a pig-nut he's wrong, and he'll spend the rest of his life trying to have something heavy fall on you when you ain't looking. - From Kennebunk born Pulitzer Prize winner Kenneth Roberts' 1933 novel Rabble in Arms.

You're a clever one. Her eyes twinkled with humor. We'll have very clever children.

But in an age of intelligence, when the keys of science have unlocked the sacred shrines and hallowed vaults of sacerdotal mysteries, and modern researches of history have laid bare the fact that most ancient religious countries abound in reports of this character, a profound and general skepticism must be the result, and a total rejection of their truth by all men of science and historic intelligence.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

She has intelligent, flirtatious eyes, and a penetrating gaze under which one feels simultaneously appraised, tested, charmed, toyed with. They remain, I suspect, a redoubtable seduction tool.

Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo...

In a smooth, unhurried motion, Jenks reached out and slapped him. "Seems to me you should pull the brains out of your ass.

She's a wolf. Get it right, crap for brains. Tink's knickers, you have got to be the stupidest lunker I've ever lit on.

Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

and were making themselves into many things they have never been before: augmented, multi-sexed, and most importantly, very long lived, the oldest at that point being around two hundred years old. But not one whit wiser, or even more intelligent. Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since.

Sheer dumb sentience.

Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.

But there were different types of intelligence, and not all of them were subject to analytic testing.

The brain is a funny animal," he muttered

El inteligente pobre es un observador mucho más fino que el rico inteligente. El pobre mira a su alrededor a cada paso que da, espía suspicazmente cada palabra que oye a las gentes que encuentra; a cada paso que da él mismo impone a sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos un deber, una norma. Tiene el oído fino, es impresionable, es un hombre experimentado, su alma tiene quemaduras.

Damiãno is hot," Lucia murmured, then realized she'd spoken aloud. "And by that, I mean, I respect his mind.