Quotes About Intelligence

Stupid is not illegal.

Trust me, beaut fades, but dumb is forever.

One's relation to one's house, in other words, is hardly a relation between a pure subject and a pure object—between an active intelligence, or mind, and a purely passive chunk of matter.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them. Gallin

I remembered Nero telling me once that smart people work, elegant people have smart people work for them.

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

However, it is possible to be a genius and still be rather stupid,

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.

What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Noam Chomsky pointed out, the number of possible sentences is infinite in any language; there is no limit to the grammatical combination of words. Behaviorism cannot explain how, after relatively limited exposure to a mother tongue, young children acquire complex syntactic structures and begin to produce "correct" utterances never heard before, by themselves or by others. What's more, they accomplish these amazing intellectual feats without being explicitly taught.

A woman looking for her King and not a Prince shows of her high intelligence and her value on her limited time not to waste it

The processors in my mind are faster than most computers

Intelligent people are cursed with many failures, letdowns and heartaches in the beginning and nothing but success the rest of days on earth.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.