Quotes About Intelligence

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'

When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that's why I was pretty good in school.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

I'm thick, actually. But it doesn't bother me. I think I'm really clever.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

When you've been in the tabloids as a drunken 'It-boy', people automatically assume you're thick.