Quotes About Intelligence

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In the future all history will be noted as BC, before contact, and AC, after contact. For from that first moment when we knew unambiguously that simple chemicals had risen to consciousness and intelligence somewhere else in the vastness of our universe, the past history of our species became only an isolated paradigm, one small and relatively insignificant fragment in the infinite tapestry that depicts the astonishing variety of sentient life.

Quando aquele mar de fogo se expandiu abaixo dele, Bowman devia ter sentido medo, mas, curiosamente, agora sentia apenas uma ligeira apreensão. Não que sua mente estivesse entorpecida de maravilhas. A lógica lhe dizia que ele certamente estava sob a proteção de alguma inteligência controladora e quase onipotente.

His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.

The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it.

It is a question of cubic capacity, said he; a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

My brain has always governed my heart Sherlock Holmes

Holmes, you have an answer to everything

He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.

I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in intelligence.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

He has considerable gifts himself. He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge; and that may come in time.

His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.

Nulla è piccolo per una grande mente, sentenziò Holmes.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done.

Bohemya Krall???'n? tehdit eden büyük bir skandal?n ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kad?n?n zekas?na yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kad?nlar?n zekas?yla ilgili espriler yapt???n? duymad?m. Ayr?ca Irene Adler'den veya fotoÄŸraf?ndan her zaman övgüyle söz etti.

I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes.