Quotes About Intelligence

La lectura es a la inteligencia lo que el ejercicio físico es al cuerpo.

El ensayo es un teatro de la inteligencia donde una mente organizada y lúcida utiliza recursos pedagógicos para hacer reflexionar al lector común y llevarlo de la mano hasta una conclusión que perdería poder persuasivo si fuera presentada de manera abrupta.

el viaje de la lectura pasa muchas veces por terrenos difíciles que exigen capacidad de emoción inteligente, deseos de comprender al otro y de acercarse a u lenguaje distinto al de nuestras tiranías cotidianas.

ahora se siente estúpido porque le parece que sólo posee una inteligencia moral; es decir, una inteligencia que no es ni científica, ni política, ni financiera, ni práctica, ni filosófica, etc.

I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Foaly: Anyone see you come in here? Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB. Foaly: The EIB? Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

The misinterpretation of intelligence was nothing new for Alfred Pleasonton. Known universally as a toady whose sights seemed eternally fixed on self-promotion, one of Pleasonton's many weaknesses was gathering and qualifying intelligence on the enemy's movements and intentions.

The collie heard the word "lass," and barked at it. The pedlar shook his head. "Nay, that's the pity of it. Ye can understand some o' man's language, but man isn't bright enough to understand thine. And yet it's us that's supposed to be most intelligent!

That as a smart person, whose brain races faster and harder than the next person's, you can't accomplish something like stopping your racing mind from worrying doesn't mean that you have a disorder or that you are a failure.

We see how boredom arises as a special, terrible problem for smart people. A smart person has a lively brain; that brain wants to work; it is primed to think; and if you give it nothing to do, it will do nothing for as long as it can bear to do nothing, but it will not be happy. It will be bored and, worse, begin to doubt the meaningfulness of life.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

We are saying that women -- as a sex -- are not more sinful than men. Women are not more deceivable than men. Women are not less intelligent than men. Women are not more prone to error than men. Women are not more dangerous than men. Women are not more arrogant or domineering than men. Women are not to be viewed with more suspicion than men. All women are born into sin, unrighteous by both nature and choice -- as are all men.

The more stupid one is, the more he thinks he thinks he knows.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

Statistically, half of all humans are below median intelligence and easily led astray by the ten percent who combine above average intelligence with a defective sense of ethics.

Eventually, doctors will adopt AI and algorithms as their work partners. This leveling of the medical knowledge landscape will ultimately lead to a new premium: to find and train doctors who have the highest level of emotional intelligence.

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.

A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.

Being smart and acting stupid are two different things.