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Quotes About Intelligence

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening" so your life will stay fresh.
~ Rumi
Luck ran out, but smart was for life.
~ John Connolly
Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
~ John Wayne
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
~ Lily Tomlin
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
~ Malcolm X
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.
~ Mason Cooley
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
~ Nicole Williams, Crash
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
~ Nora Roberts, Black Rose
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
~ Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood
Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.
~ Freeman Dyson
Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.
~ John Wayne
Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
~ Richard Dawkins
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
~ Terence McKenna
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.
~ Alan Watts
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.
~ Alyson Hannigan
The group of stupid people collectively treats or makes an intelligent amongst them look like duffer and a fool living in a big network of enlightened minds even starts behaving sensibly in life.
~ Anuj
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
~ Bobby Fischer
I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting.
~ Callan McAuliffe
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
~ Charles Stross
There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)
~ Edward Jay Epstein
would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.
~ Edward Jay Epstein
Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted "the instruction manual for how the NSA is built" and that they "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.
~ Edward Jay Epstein