Quotes About Intelligence

we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.

true of intelligence and success in life. You only have to be smart enough to fulfill the intellectual requirements for success.

It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis of very specific types of worldviews and behaviors.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

Der Klügere gibt nie nach. Er wartet nur auf den passenden Moment, um zuzuschlagen.

The highest order of mental health must include the freedom of a man to employ his intelligence for the solution of human problems, his own and those of his society.

Assim manda a justiça - a inteligência e a sabedoria foram e são ainda hoje as qualidades que transformam o mendigo em príncipe.

This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Luck never made a man wise.

There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.

La connerie, c'est la décontraction de l'intelligence !

The laws of nature are not intelligent,' I replied. 'The force of gravity is not intelligent. Electricity is not intelligent. A savage looking at a television might assume that it's a sapient being, but we—' 'A sapient being? Looking at a television these days, the only possible assumption is that it's a loud-mouthed, hysterical madman suffering from progressive mental debility,' Anna Tikhonovna said derisively.

Artificial intelligence is one of the most profound things we're working on as humanity. It's more profound than fire or electricity.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

We're not trying to replace human intelligence. We're trying to augment it. We're trying to make it better.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

one might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.

What he found were "a few brilliant beacons in a fog of fools.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Shakuntala Devi

His intelligence only exacerbated the guilt Kugel felt for bringing him into the world. It was one thing to have condemned a child to life, that was criminal enough, but life was a sentence more easily served by fools.

W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, "Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph.