Quotes About Intelligence

She created a new world for herself. It blew my mind to see this animal acquire language. And then literally reshape her world with it.

Jennie taught me just how worthless that is. Being smart. Jennie wasn't smart by human standards, but she had a set of values. Real values. You see, for Jennie, freedom was the highest value. Language gave Jennie freedom. Although I didn't know it at the time, she taught me the real meaning of the word "freedom," not the bullshit meaning you get from politicians and priests.

I believe that we humans, in teaching chimpanzees and gorillas ASL, stumbled upon a natural communication system already in use. We just enhanced it. This is just my opinion and I wouldn't dare put it in a paper.

seventy percent of human beings fall in the average or below-average range in intelligence. In other words, more than two-thirds of all human beings are average, which is stupid enough, or they're clinical morons.

artificial intelligence.

Then there was that absurd syntax business again. No language without syntax. Well, what about Latin! These assholes didn't even know Latin! Where did these guys go to school?

The Stanford-Binet curve demonstrates that seventy percent of human beings fall in the average or below-average range in intelligence. In other words, more than two-thirds of all human beings are average, which is stupid enough, or they're clinical morons.

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Most people, in my experience, are a little thick. If not abundantly so.

He had always found it easier to go up against an intelligent adversary. Stupid people were unpredictable.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.

We live in a nation of ignoramuses. The average American knows nothing about science. A man asked me once if the stars went away when the sun rose, or if they were still there but you just couldn't see them. He was a stockbroker I had the misfortune of employing, a man who made over one hundred thousand dollars a year! Well, I took my investments away from him, damn quick! And then the market climbed five hundred points.

There can be no doubt: life is a miraculous thing, and even more miraculous is human intelligence. Our world, this earth, is a surpassingly beautiful place, perfectly suited to our needs. It is as if the world were created for us, so perfect is it. But this is an illusion; in fact, we were created for the world. The world is just right for us because we've been adapting to it for millions of years.

Institutionalized motherhood demands of women maternal 'instinct' rather than intelligence, selflessness rather than self-realization, relation to others rather than the creation of self. Motherhood is 'sacred' so long as its offspring are 'legitimate' -- that is, as long as the child bears the name of a father who legally controls the mothe.r

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

You should employ your little grey cells

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.