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Quotes About Intelligence

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.
~ Christopher Bryan, Singularity
Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.
~ Ginni Rometty
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.
~ Ada Lovelace
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
~ Thomas More
A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
~ Joe Strummer
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
~ Bill Hicks
I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.
~ Maya Angelou
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
~ Albert Einstein
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
~ H. L. Mencken
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
~ Arlen Specter
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.
~ Ken Wilber
On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
~ Harry S. Truman
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
~ Ted Williams
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me
~ Fabio Capello
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
~ Marvin Minsky
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
~ Michel de Montaigne