Quotes About Intelligence

I held top-secret security clearance.

I actually think I think better in high heels.

I think I have a high boxing IQ and I do this at a really high level.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.

Mindy Kaling is so smart and hilarious.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

If any one object that I have here imagined too much, I would remark, first, that the records in the Gospel are very brief and condensed; second, that the germs of a true intelligence must lie in this small seed, and our hearts are the soil in which it must unfold itself; third, that we are bound to understand the story, and that the foregoing are the suppositions on which I am able to understand it in a manner worthy of what I have learned concerning Him.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comforable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me.

He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.