Quotes About Intelligence

He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that still made me pretty damn clever.

Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely on unconscious expressions: war, violence, psychosomatic illness, neurotic suffering, and accidents are very low-grade ways of living out the shadow. Ceremony and ritual are a far more intelligent means of accomplishing the same thing. Ceremonies

The purpose of learning to work with the unconscious is not just to resolve our conflicts or deal with our neuroses. We find there a deep source of renewal, growth, strength, and wisdom. We connect with the source of our evolving character; we cooperate with the process whereby we bring the total self together; we learn to tap that rich lode of energy and intelligence that waits within.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing to do with college degrees or reading books. True intelligence is a willingness to exchange a fallacy for a fact.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

It's just that smart people are prone to look into matters to see how they might go about buttering their toast. Then they butter their toast.

Orders make you stupid, the captain told me, figure it out for yourself.

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

rational approach.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Regarding travel writer and author T.R. Threston. "Tina is one of the most beautiful women I've met. She isn't just physically attractive, she also has inner beauty. She is compassionate, funny, intelligent, and, has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met. She is truly one of a kind!

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought.

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.