Quotes About Intelligence

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

I like smart rappers who aren't necessarily trying to be deeper than you, like Danny Brown.

I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

Decisions concerning covert actions are not often easily reached.

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

I was a precocious reader.

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.