Quotes About Intelligence

Los niños... A veces son mucho más astutos que los atontados y pesados adultos.)

just because I can't read, doesn't mean I'm stupid - Liesel

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

ART said, I want an apology. I made an obscene gesture at the ceiling with both hands. (I know ART isn't the ceiling but the humans kept looking up there like it was.) ART said, That was unnecessary. In a low voice, Ratthi commented to Overse, Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Twenty-five years in the KGB and an agent used a turtle's name as his password. Lenin wept.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

Dr. Samuel G. Morton, a Philadelphia physician, emerged with the head-size theory which affirmed that the larger the skull, the superior the individual. This theory was used by other ethnologists to prove that the large head size of Caucasians signified more intellectual capacity and more native worth. A

The call for intelligence is a call for openmindedness, sound judgment, and love for truth. It is a call for men to rise above the stagnation of closedmindedness and the paralysis of gullibility.

Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

People say you should only write what you know. But you only write what you know because you are too fucking stupid to make anything up.

It seems that the great majority of these men and women are still employed in the organisations, and are capable of handing over information which would put their targets at risk from attack. 

One IRA man, a schoolteacher, has a part-time job and is employed and paid a monthly wage by the intelligence wing of the IRA Belfast Brigade, spending his spare time feeding information into a computer; details of thousands of men and women whom the IRA believe that it might want to target at some future date. Every

Bruno could never feel comfortable without an animal close to the center of his life, a creature with intelligence and warmth in its eyes, with affection and trust in its greeting.

In general, we're least aware of what our minds do best.

i have the brain the size of a planet and you want to talk to me about life

May intelligent, bookish ladies sometimes be reformed? he asked her. She thought about it. I suppose it may be within the bounds of possibility, she said, even if not of probability.

Our official detectives may blunder in the matter of intelligence, but never in that of courage. Gregson climbed the stair to arrest this desperate murderer with the same absolutely quiet and businesslike bearing with which he would have ascended the official staircase of Scotland Yard. The Pinkerton man had tried to push past him, but Gregson had firmly elbowed him back. London dangers were the privilege of the London force.

reason. Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!" "You see!" said Athelney Jones, reappearing down the steps

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.