Quotes About Intelligence

Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

Never before had he met anyone who knew, or cared, that it was Chesterfield who said: Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Qwilleran said, "If I had a dog, it would be a German shepherd.

No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.

Spies have no sense of timing.

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be Take me to our leader. They're more likely to say Party on, dude!

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.

Anger at the senselessness of my situation, at the stupidity of French bureaucracy, filled me to the very pores. My intelligence failed to offer the argument that I was dealing not with individual men but with a system.

There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.

No, my fatalism is yet not as primitive as that. It is rather the logical outcome of unfortunate experiences with the consistent application of intelligence.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

being a math genius doesn't necessarily translate to financial gain. Lots of geniuses die poor.

For heaven's sake, was there anything of value in the Y chromosome? One ounce of intelligence to go with all that raging testosterone?

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.