Quotes About Intelligence

I read that the real Cleopatra wasn't even that great-looking. She seduced everyone with how clever she was." "Yeah, right. And you've seen a picture of her?" "They didn't have cameras back then, Squint." "Duh. So how do you know she was ugly?" "Because that's what historians wrote at the time.

My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.

Zekiysen nefret eder, aptalsan küçümserler.

Seni din, cinsellik ve TV ile aptallaÅŸt?r?rlar ki, Sen de kendini ak?ll?, s?n?fs?z ve özgür san?rs?n.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.

Well said, old mole!

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.

What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!

Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve itself from insanity, then petrified those few chosen sensations into language. Once a child was brought up in a language system, it was impossible for her to hold a concept that couldn't be framed in that language.

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

More militerry, less skools.

Kadang sebuah kelompok kurang cerdas dibanding seorang individu. Lihat saja orang-orang: satu persatu mereka bisa sangat pintar, tapi gabungkan mereka dalam satu kelompok yang tidak terorganisir bisa menimbulkan huru-hara, terutama jika ada insiden yang menghasut. Di lain kesempatan sebuah kelompok menunjukkan perilaku yang lebih pintar daripada seorang individu, seperti yang terjadi di sini dengan para semuat atau sekawanan lebah.

I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.

You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can't walk around letting people think you're stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it's fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they've been insulted. (Mark) Yeah, that's a twofer there. You get away with it and then they're twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin) I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat) Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)

Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise

All right, the pendulum isn't working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it." – Death "Like gasoline?" – Nick "Yes, Nick. We're going to set the book and your pendulum on fire and then use them 'cause we're just that intelligent." – Death

If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn't…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

You've got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

I'm too young, too smart, and too good-looking to die. Yeah, and then some. The world needed him to improve the gene pool. Not to mention, at fourteen he hadn't even had his first date yet. He'd only just, this night, had his first kiss. He should have recognized that alone as a sign that the apocalypse was coming and that his death was imminent.' – Nick