Quotes About Intelligence

So, uh, just to be clear," said Calo, "none of us are going to be fighting Jean?" "Not unless you're inconceivably stupid.

Please, boy. Let's not start out with either of us insulting the other's intelligence. There are only three people in life you can never fool—pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've taken her place. Hence, I'm bullshit-proof.

Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?" "On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions." "Are you more dangerous than a cow? A chicken? A sheep?" "Let's be generous and say yes.

You're one-third bad intentions, one-third pure avarice, and one-eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. I

Q: What do you call it when a blonde dyes her hair brunette? A: Artificial intelligence.

Q: Why did God give blondes 2 percent more brains than horses? A: Because God didn't want them shitting on the street during parades.

God had made a pretty good stew, then He'd screwed it up by mixing in humans and giving them free will and brains. Brains.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

When a room at the CIA headquarters is secret, a secret from people who spend their lives creating and breaking secrets, that's some pretty serious black-ops shit.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.