Quotes About Intelligence

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

It's not every actor that can play a genius.

I'm a bordering genius.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

People who are geniuses, once they get going, you really have to keep up.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

I learnt German as well as English, so by the time I was three my parents has already decided I was a gifted child.

I've put all the hours in and there's a depth to my education. There are a couple of brain cells in there, more than you might expect of a 6ft 1in ginger skinhead.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

When you've done good work, you can't come back with something stupid.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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six thousand NSA officials were deployed to Iraq and, later, Afghanistan;

the lag time between collecting and acting on intelligence was slashed from sixteen hours to one minute. By

Our past was slavery. We cannot recur to it with any sense of complacency or composure. The history of it is a record of stripes, a revelation of agony. It is written in characters of blood. Its breath is a sigh, its voice a groan, and we turn from it with a shudder. The duty of to-day is to meet the questions that confront us with intelligence and courage. —Frederick Douglass, "The Nation's Problem

felt somewhat surprised that I could be so much at ease in such company, but I found it then, as I have since, that the higher the gradation in intelligence and refinement the farther removed are all artificial distinctions and restraints of mere caste or color.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere. It sees plainly the real worth of men and things, and is not easily imposed upon by the dressed up emptiness of human pride.

Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.