Quotes About Intelligence

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

What Sarah brings to the part is her intelligence, at the same time, she's got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

The vice-president's tongue is several time zones ahead of his brain.

Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?

Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

Even if I am twisted and warped." Raistlin's voice rose with harsh arrogance. "Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!