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Quotes About Intelligence

Mi padre comenzaba apoyándose en la fuerza de los dos axiomas siguientes: Primero: que, para un hombre, una onza de su propia inteligencia valía por una tonelada de la de cualquier otra persona; y Segundo (el cual, por cierto, era el fundamento del primer axioma—aunque viniera después): que la inteligencia de todo hombre debía necesariamente provenir de su propia alma—y jamás de la de ninguna otra persona.
~ Laurence Sterne
wats yr typ? people who can spell
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I mean really: If even Conan Doyle hungered to shove Holmes off a tall cliff, surely a young female of obvious intelligence would have brained the detective on first sight.
~ Laurie R King
A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.
~ Laurie R. King
Holmes, you're a genius. So I have been told.
~ Laurie R. King
ratiocination.
~ Laurie R. King
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
~ George Jean Nathan
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.
~ Keri Russell
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
~ George Orwell
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.
~ Archilochus
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
~ Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
~ Stephen Hawking
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
~ Clive James
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.
~ Edgar Mitchell
The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron
~ Frederick Winslow Taylor
Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
~ Marvin Minsky
I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers
~ Rachel Caine
Intelligence is not a science.
~ Frank Carlucci