Quotes About Intelligence

Much learning doth make thee mad.

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

But in either instance, if it has intelligence, that intelligence is far different from our own. It creates out of our ecosystem a new world, whose processes and aims are utterly alien—one that works through supreme acts of mirroring, and by remaining hidden in so many other ways, all without surrendering the foundations of its otherness as it becomes what it encounters.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

very wary of judging people just on the basis of how smart they sound, and particularly on their ability to find problems or fault with ideas. These are dangerous people. They are smart enough to stop things from happening, but not action oriented enough to find ways of overcoming the problems they have identified.

You ask a lot of questions for a girl in a tree." "Asking questions is a sign of intelligence." "I've heard that. Do your parents know you're out here?" "You ask a lot of questions for a lady who looks like she's been up all night." "Intelligence," Grace said playfully. "Barefoot in the mud? I dunno. You don't 'look' so smart.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

Beauty might be the wisest royal of them all.

how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.