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Quotes About Intelligence

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
~ Lee Child
Smart people, working hard, paying attention, thinking laterally.
~ Lee Child
He's smarter than me. I get things done better. He's more cerebral, I'm more physical.
~ Lee Child
Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.
~ Lee Child
Stands for, aren't really Marines yet." "Like Marine stands for muscles are requested, intelligence not expected.
~ Lee Child
But I wanted someone who was more than just intelligent and educated. I was searching for an expert who wouldn't gloss over nuances or blithely dismiss challenges to the records of Christianity
~ Lee Strobel
whereupon the third machine stepped out into the center of the cave, bowed low and said, in a voice that was tonic, euphonic, and most electronic
~ Lem Stanislaw, The Cyberiad
must be lonesome, being bright and witty and aware
~ Lenny Bruce
Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or "Wise, Wise Man.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
When a teacher initially believes that one student is smarter than another, he selectively focuses on evidence that tends to confirm the hypothesis.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
We are inclined, that is, to see movie stars as more talented than aspiring movie stars and to think that the richest people in the world must also be the smartest.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
The defenders of capitalism spent their time broadcasting the vibrations of guilt and futility. Implicitly or explicitly, they were telling the country: human intelligence is impotent to control the course of society, men are helpless in the face of their own motivation, laissez-faire appeals to the evil in men, but men are stuck with it.
~ Leonard Peikoff
Providence," said Hitler to Rauschning, has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing men from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge; from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a chimera called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.45
~ Leonard Peikoff
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Oricine îÅŸi susÈ›ine un argument prin apelarea la o autoritate nu îÅŸi foloseÅŸte inteligenÈ›a; el îÅŸi utilizeaz? doar memoria.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
~ Lewis Caroll
If I had but the time and you had but the brain
~ Lewis Carroll
Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
~ Lewis Carroll
One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.
~ Lewis Carroll
Su cara refleja algo de sentido común, ¡Aunque no es una niña demasiado lista!. Sin embargo, tienes un bonito color, y eso siempre ayuda.
~ Lewis Carroll
Algunas personas ¡Tienen menos sentido común que un bebé!
~ Lewis Carroll
I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?
~ Libba Bray