Quotes About Intelligence

Un autentico cretino, difficile a trovarsi in questi tempi in cui i cretini si camuffano da intelligenti.

The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her intelligence does not have the same importance as the lay of her ass.

Men hate intelligence in women. It cannot flame; it cannot burn; it cannot burn out and end up in ashes, having been consumed in adventure. It cannot be cold, rational, ice; no warm womb would tolerate a cold, icy, splendid mind. It cannot be ebullient and it cannot be morbid; it cannot be anything that does not end in reproduction or whoring. It cannot be what intelligence is: a vitality of mind that acts directly in and on the world, without mediation.

If we stopped arguing for one true view and conceded that we had a choice in this matter, we might gain the ability to choose flexibly. We could then more easily choose perspectives that allow us to solve problems we humans care about, problems that require delicate decisions, such as how to best distribute resources in a country, how to provide for and educate a population, and how to improve its intelligence.

Reason cannot operate without imagination.

For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.

Is there intelligence without life? Is there mind without communication? Is there language without living? Is there thought without experience?

For Alan Turing did not think of himself as placed in a superior category by virtue of his brains, and only insisted upon playing what happened to be his own special part.

The line between the 'mechanical' and the 'intelligent' was very, very slightly blurred.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

If you're wiser it doesn't make you happier. One of the girls in one of your movies said something like, ' I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

Diversity is a strength. It's like the shrieking radios permanently attached to bright people's ears in the Kurt Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron," to prevent them from using their superior intelligence. Contrary to everything you've heard, never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a disaster.

Mimi … Oh, you just take Janine's side because she's smarter than I am. Mom and Dad love her more because she's smarter, and I bet you do, too!

An average person has an IQ of 100. An above-average person has an IQ of 120 to 140. A person with an IQ of 150 is considered a genius. Janine's IQ is 196. Sometimes

Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

The size of a man's understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.

what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity

Žmog? visada galima pažinti iš jo skaitom? knyg?.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.