Quotes About Intelligence

Parlai di me come se avessi cercato da sempre, per impormi, di essere maschio nell'intelligenza - io mi sono inventata dai maschi, colonizzata dalla loro immaginazione, [...].

Comment avais-je pu imaginer lui plaire, ne serait-ce que le temps des vacances, moi la petite ronde à lunettes, certes appliquée mais pas intelligente, moi qui prétendais être cultivée et informée mais ne l'étais pas?

Do you think Dino is intelligent?" "All children are, you just have to train them.

What's the crime?" "The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it.

Io - dopo tanta fatica - non so pensare. Nemmeno Mariarosa sa: ha letto pagine e pagine e le ricombina con estro, dando spettacolo. Tutto qui. Lila invece sa. E' la sua natura. Se avesse studiato, avrebbe saputo pensare a questo modo.

Eine Gemeinschaft, die es normal findet, so viel weibliche Intelligenz mit der Sorge um Kinder und Haushalt zu ersticken, schadet sich selbst und merkt es nicht mal.

If you don't, you're guilty not only on a human level but also on a political one." "What's the crime?" "The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it." I waited in silence

How wonderful to travel, how wonderful to know someone who knows everything, whose intelligence and looks and kindness are extraordinary, and who explains to you the value of what by yourself you wouldn't be able to appreciate.

The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it." I waited in silence

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

Let me remind all of us--disabled and nondisabled--that every time we defend our intelligence, we come close to disowning intellectually disabled people. We imply that it might be okay to exclude, devalue, and institutionalize people who actually live with body-mind conditions that impact the ways they think, understand, and process information. The only way out of this trap is to move toward, not away from, intellectually disabled people, to practice active solidarity.

But in today's world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood.

A joke is a question of mind over manner.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it's the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

America has an internal enemy more deadly than any terrorist -- it's called ignorance.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.

difícilmente los tontos son del todo buenos. Y lo peor es que los inteligentes difícilmente lo quieren ser».

My mind isn't shit! (Really!)

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.