Quotes About Intelligence

In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

In the end, none of our election recommendations was implemented. Afterward I asked ISAF's intelligence chief, General Michael Flynn—among the most sympathetic officers to the anticorruption agenda—if any surveillance satellites had been assigned to monitor turnout. He seemed startled, as though we had never discussed the idea. Oh no, came his answer. They were too busy tracking insurgents.

There's nothing closer than a diplomat and a spy.

Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.

Was you born this fucking dumb, Milly-Fox, or do you practice every Dixieme?

It rattled me. Not just the look or the question-although those were bad enough-but the realization that he'd simply taken a shortcut through the conversation I'd anticipated having and reached the finish line ahead of me. I'd known he was much smarter than he seemed, but I hadn't appreciated before how quick he was, that his mind was not in any way hobbled by the scar that slowed and distorted his speech. It was so terribly easy to forget that.

Flat she might be, but not stupid.

Some days I think I'm too stupid to be let out on my own, and then there's the days that prove it.

Don't worry, darling. I only want you for your mind.

She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable.

They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages.

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the "over" and just think, then we could do, too. Only we'd be smarter doers because we'd be thinkers.

The contemporary art world is what Tom Wolfe would call a "statusphere." It's structured around nebulous and often contradictory hierarchies of fame, credibility, imagined historical importance, institutional affliction, perceived intelligence, wealth, and attribution such as the size of one's art collection.

Indeed, being an artist is not just a job but an identity dependent on a broad range of extracurricular intelligences.

Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a

Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.