Quotes About Intelligence

I cannot imagine anyone having such a criminal lack of sense.

Henry was a girl of some intelligence. She recognized a superior intellect and a more powerful will when she met them. It was just that she had never met either until she had deliberately run against the hard wall of Eversleigh's body the night before.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid.

Listen', he said seriously, 'I'm not just wasting your time telling funny stories. You have to know about stuff like this or your program is going to claim it's found intelligent life on Mars. And everyone knows there's only Australians there, right?

genius may have its limits but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

True education always fosters humility, although mere accumulation of facts fosters pride. All these things are requisite in the cloister. Above all, authentic education fits a person for a life of solitude. A girl who has learned to cultivate the soil of her own intelligence is already conditioned for an interior life. Her education is thus supremely useful to her in the cloister.

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo.

Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter

Maybe the girls in my gym class had been right all along, and poetry was a trick on smart people—a bunch of hooey, fawned over by whining fops of the most stick-up-the-ass variety.

Vulgarity is the crutch of the weak and the ignorant,'" I snapped. "But what the fuck did she know?

Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?

We are irrational in our species-?specific devotions. I know a man who won't eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly intelligent, likely more intelligent—?I'm guessing, for I have not seen the SAT scores—?than octopuses. Why, for that matter, is intelligence the scale by which we decide whom to spare? Or size? Have the simple and the small less right to live?

Ka was the essence of teh person: spirit, intelligence, feelings and passions, humor, grudges, annoying television theme songs, all the things that make a person a person and not a nematode.

Expert economics coming to the assistance of ambitious unintelligence." Let them chew cake.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Aduh! Mengapa manusia harus selalu membual bahwa daya pikirnya jauh lebih tinggi daripada yang dimiliki binatang? Ini menyebabkan manusia terlalu banyak menuntut kebutuhan hidup.

He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.

Cualquier inteligencia normalmente dotada que se dedique con interes a determinada area, llega sin duda a dominarla con cierta profundidad.

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

When a person walks by draped with priceless robes and jewels, you may wonder, does silk increase one's intelligence?

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life

Putin and his colleagues were reduced mainly to collecting press clippings, thus contributing to the growing mountains of useless information produced by the KGB.

To be enjoyable, an AI must put up a good fight but lose more often than win. It must make the player feel clever, sly, cunning, and powerful. It must make the player jump from his seat shouting, "Take that, you little shit!

Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper.