Quotes About Intelligence

Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.

There are multiple claims to Mr. Smart.

Oh, don't think we're all seriousness and stealth, Merlin.

His face gives nothing away; Valens plays his games on a dozen levels.

Somebody intelligent enough for space flight already lives on Grail.

Am I just a sufficiently complicated and randomized construct that I adequately simulate intelligence? Or am I just a mock-up?

She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.

Sometimes, laziness was the next best thing to genius.

One of the problems with AIs grown from personality seeds is that sometimes they're just as reactive and weird as any human.

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

Sneaky manipulative bundle of code.

Your brain is optimized for pattern-sensing," Gavin commented. "And chatter.

You're pretty bright when you allow yourself to be.

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936]

To love makes one less clever.

Your eyes are the shade of intelligence, able to pierce a man's heart with merely a glance. As they have done so to mine.

Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?

A man who is so cunning that he is sometimes stupid.

She had taken to herself her mother's fair beauty and as much—and no more—of her father's intelligence as it was desirable that a pretty child should have, and to them some good fairy had added something else, the best of all gifts, the power of enjoyment, not just animal enjoyment of good health and good spirits but that authentic love of life that sees good days.

One afternoon Washoe used ASL to ask him his name. Then she made up a sign for Bob: the index and middle fingers rubbed along the right eyebrow. Ingersoll liked it and taught the younger chimps to sign his name the same way.

and handjobs on crows.

Emotional intelligence is learning how to decipher and channel the brilliance of your heart." 

My first baby looked neither new nor old. He was otherworldly, like a pure ray of intelligence, like an innocent visitor from a more benevolent planet.

Intelligent men think up ways to get themselves in tangles a stupid man would never imagine.