Quotes About Intelligence

if there were no stupidity in the world, we'd all be riding around in flying cars and colonizing Proxima Centauri

brilliance is a kind of binary thing. You either got it or you don't. If you do, a 130 IQ and a 170 aren't that different, so long as you know how to apply what you got.

Being smart is not enough to get away with a crime . . . you have to spend time getting good at it.

But another part of me wonders if you do know how smart you are, but you've never tried to tackle a bigger problem because you're afraid you'll fail and then . . . well, and then in your eyes, you'll be a failure to your father.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

What are you going to use?" "Common sense?

Zookeepers move the food around each day so the gorillas don't get bored. They turn it into an Easter-egg hunt. The gorillas need challenges. The lack of one makes 'em go nuts. We need someone to hide our food," I explain.

There's an intelligence there, a raging fire of curiosity.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

After September 11th, that all changed for the Pentagon and the CIA, and like the render and torture program, something which began under Clinton and expanded under Bush, would exponentially increase in power under the Obama administration.

Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.

persons of choleric dispositions and limited intelligences are apt to become rude.

gargantuan memory for facts

Alan Turing installed something known as a bombe machine, an electro-mechanical device which made hundreds

Stalin did not trust Churchill, because he did not trust anyone (except, for two years, Adolf Hitler). Yet Churchill could not discover Stalin's true views about him because after June 1941 Britain's intelligence services were ordered not to spy on Britain's new Soviet ally, a mistaken policy that was certainly not reciprocated.

Suitably thought through, intelligent inspection schemes can actually increase the efficiency and productivity of any manufacturing or administrative process

How are we going to do this in the most intelligent way? We start by looking at our production flow. The first thing we must do is to pin down the step in the flow that will determine the overall shape of our operation, which we'll call the limiting step.

As Albert Einstein said: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

I've always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.

To me, Madam Yennefer, wisdom includes the ability to turn a deaf ear to foolish or insincere advice.

Geralt finished his mug of herb tea, grimacing dreadfully. He valued and liked the settled elves for their intelligence, calm reserve and sense of humour, but he couldn't understand or share their taste in food or drink.

Some have brains, so they get a book! Others are feather-brained, so they get a broom!

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