Quotes About Intelligence

I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

It requires a huge amount of intelligence to be an actor.

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

The human brain is really bad at thinking about exponential things.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

The human mind can be sexy.

There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

The contribution of mathematics, and of people, is not computation but intelligence.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

I heard you could do that—buy books by the yard, turn them into furniture. People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

Before we start, you have to understand one very key thing about Amy: She is fucking brilliant. Her brain is so busy, it never works on just one level. She's like this endless archaeological dig: You think you've reached the final layer, and then you bring down your pick one more time, and you break through to a whole new mine shaft beneath. With a maze of tunnels and bottomless pits.

I'm a self-didact. (Not a dirty word, look it up.) I read constantly. I think. But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me.

But I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

This is the hardest part: waiting for stupid people to figure things out.