Quotes About Intelligence

We are entering the Age of Awareness, marked by machine intelligence everywhere.

Human achievement is based on collective intelligence—the nodes in the human neural network are people themselves. By each doing one thing and getting good at it, then sharing and combining the results through exchange, people become capable of doing things they do not even understand.

Computers are fine, but it's time to return to the mind itself and stop pretending we have computers for brains.

Really tapping into our inner vision and inner child might not make us happier or better adjusted, but it might make us appreciate just how smart we really are.

where perspicacity is weakened,

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.

But it is none the less true that men do not come to God by way of their own reason; neither do they in this way get near to him, because all their intelligence is but vanity. Whence

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

Cats are very intelligent at all the things that cats need to be intelligent about.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

It never paid to underestimate children.

Most criminals are kind of dumb, which is why they're criminals. If they weren't criminals, they'd be doing something else to screw up people's lives, like running elections in Florida

borderline simpleton.

there were things living on the bottom of ponds that were smarter than most bail jumpers.

I think we've established that her son is crazy, and crazy cancels out clever every time.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.