Quotes About Intelligence

a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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

Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan.

It is my business to know things. That is my trade.

Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent.

We also have our diplomatic secrets

Mr. Holmes always knows whatever there is to know.

It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force... There's more work to be got out of one of those little beggars than out of a dozen of the force,' Holmes remarked. 'The mere sight of an official-looking person seals men's lips. These youngsters, however, go everywhere and hear everything. They are as sharp as needles, too; all they want is organization.

Nada es pequeño para una inteligencia grande.

Foi assim que um grande escândalo ameaçou o reino da Boêmia, e que os melhores planos de Mr. Sherlock Holmes foram frustrados pela sagacidade de uma mulher. Ele costumava zombar da inteligência das mulheres, mas a partir desse dia nunca mais o vi fazê-lo.

Este hombre tal vez sea muy inteligente, pero, desde luego, es insufriblemente engreído».

Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit - Nema neugodnije budale od one koja ima nešto duha.

for in days when books were few and readers scarce, a long memory and a ready tongue were of the more value;

Confío en no ser más torpe que mis semejantes, pero siempre me oprimía una sensación de estupidez al tratar con Sherlock Holmes.

Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.

Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.

people who live in it; it emphasizes the idea that ghosts, like dreams and hallucinations, are figments of the human intelligence.

One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence.

She had found that men who were outstandingly handsome were either monumentally stupid or unbearably dull.

There are no such things as dumb problems. There are only dumb students.

Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.

Religion interferes with this play of selection and adaptation by forcing on everyone indiscriminately its own path to the attainment of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in reducing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world by means of delusion; and this presupposes the intimidation of the intelligence.

Still, Mrs Pargeter reflected, you didn't have to be very intelligent to be a solicitor. Just somehow scrape through a few exams in your twenties and then the British legal system saw to it that you had a meal ticket for life.