Quotes About Intelligence

The question is, really, does the nonexistence of another attack prove that the programs that are in place are working?

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Any man of good sense should never have his children taught to be unusually clever.

This thy wit hath no wit.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

A fool will think you are an idiot if you talk sense to him.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.

But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the impossible, come true.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is-- utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative.