Quotes About Intelligence

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

A veces el conocimiento da asco

Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life.

Losing parts of your memory didn't make you an idiot.

Shut up! Do you think we're morons?" Michael kept his expression blank. Oh how badly he wanted to say "Yup.

have friends among the Tangents.'

Sorry I'm so brilliant," Michael said. " 'Tis a burden I must bear.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

The second component of intelligence involves the elegance of interpretations of the experiences of life.

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

The function of the Society and of Department 17 is to keep track of all espionage and related acts recorded in literature. In other words, the Department reads spy thrillers and murder mysteries

Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

But although the young Houston could secret himself away for hours enraptured by the classics, in a classroom he remained, from all indications, terrible.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.