Quotes About Intelligence

Si esta el Hombre dotado de sensibilidad e inteligencia y es capaz de fijar altamente la consideración en cuanto pasa en el mundo, no encontrará acaso nada ni aun en lo que acontece como adición natural, qué no suponga una gracia característica.

In Holland, Ron was the battalion S-2 Intelligence officer for Colonel Robert Strayer. While on reconnaissance, Ron paddled across the Neder Rhine alone at night. The enemy opened fire on him and he dove into the water with a German bullet in his butt. He finished recrossing the river by swimming and was found bleeding and exhausted on the south shore. In spite of his wound, he brought back critical information and later received the Silver Star for that adventure.

You have a genius.

Those of us who do this best—who find what we love about what we do, and cultivate this love with intelligence and discipline—are the ones who contribute most. The best people are not well-rounded, finding fulfillment in their uniform ability. Quite the opposite, in fact—the best people are spiky, and in their lovingly honed spikiness they find their biggest contribution, their fastest growth, and, ultimately, their greatest joy.

As we read the Bible, we are not only to bring our critical intelligence with us, but also to listen.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

There is no fool like an educated fool...

You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

The memos that came from above telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him because they'd been dictated by semi-literates; all they proved was that no one at AnooYou was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

According to Tobias, it was more difficult to seduce a stupid woman than an intelligent one because stupid women could not understand innuendo or even connect cause with effect.

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.

Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.

he was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Siempre es una imprudencia interponerse entre un hombre y el reflejo de su propia inteligencia

All that festers is not gold, but it can be made profitable in non-monetary ways: knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge. I am not the first person to have recognized this, or to have capitalized on it when possible: every intelligence agency in the world has always known it.

If in doubt, play dumb," said Ada

Good. You are all intelligent women. Through your former…" He did not want to say professions. "Through your former experiences, you are familiar with the lives of women. You know how they are likely to think, or let me rephrase that—how they are likely to react to stimuli, both positive and less positive.

Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave the ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.