Quotes About Intelligence

I've often noticed that people equate "having a sense of humour" with "being an insensitive moron.")

He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

I've often noticed that people equate 'having a sense of humour' with 'being an insensitive moron'.) This

He feels like fun. He feels like cleverness and irreverence and wit and charm, all packaged up in a long, lean frame.

He pauses to stretch out his fingers and I'm suddenly transfixed by his hands. Hands which used to roam over me, caress me, make love to me. I know how much emotional intelligence is in those hands. I know how he balances thoughtful, cerebral caution with audacious risk-taking, all without a flicker.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

A man through wit May pass another's wisdom in the race.

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!

My job is to know what other people do not know.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.