Quotes About Intelligence

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

The ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.---Irrational Exuberance

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

The Light save me from men who think with the hair on their chests. Though I don't know as there are any other kind.

No son espadas ni fuerza muscular lo que necesitamos ahora —discrepó Nynaeve—, sino inteligencia. Los hombres suelen pensar con el pelo que tienen en el pecho. —Se tocó el pecho con aire ausente, como si palpara algo debajo de la chaqueta—. La mayoría de ellos lo hacen.

He could not decide whether she was an utter feather head, or very clever.

incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.

Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.

La inteligencia resuelve los problemas y produce dinero. El dinero sin inteligencia financiera , es dinero que desaparece pront.

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum;

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos.

It's an insoluble dilemma, really. Presidents change, different men with different temperaments and appetites sit in the Oval Office. However, a long-range intelligence strategy doesn't change, not one like this. Yet an offhand remark over a glass of whiskey in a postpresidential conversation, or an egotistical phrase in a memoir, can blow that same strategy right to hell. There isn't a day that we don't worry about those men who have survived the White House.

If you can't define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity.

My own opinion is that the intellect of modern man isn't that superior. IQs aren't that much different. Those Indians and medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different. Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quarks are to a modern man. In that sense I believe in ghosts. Modern man has his ghosts and spirits too, you know.

maintaining the high rank is about social intelligence and impulse control: knowing which provocations to ignore and which coalitions to form, understanding other individuals' actions.

These are crucially different. For example, how much do genes have to do with people's scores averaging 100 on this thing called an IQ test? Then how much do genes have to do with one person scoring higher than another?

The standard, convincing explanation for the link is that RWA provides simple answers, ideal for people with poor abstract reasoning skills.

who no doubt honored a keen memory as a sign—bogus though it was in and of itself—of intelligence:

That's the way it is. The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.