Quotes About Intelligence

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

that most precious of human commodities—knowledge.

To truly win a war, attack the enemy's plan.

Knowledge is far more powerful than any weapon

Talk slow, clear, and smart. If you can't do all three, keep your mouth shut.

we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world.

a real scholar with a bright pen

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

The ECLS data do show, for instance, that a child with a lot of books in his home tends to test higher than a child with no books.

Pero la felicidad se entreveía en una docena de formas más. Parece que ése es el resultado de realizar un trabajo interesante con colegas inteligentes en un entorno hermoso, todo con un sentimiento de misión profundo. Un precio de las acciones en 297 dólares tampoco perjudica.

Smart people love to make smart-sounding predictions, no matter how wrong they may turn out to be.

Por cada persona inteligente que se molesta en crear un esquema de incentivos, existe un ejército de gente, inteligente o no, que inevitablemente invertirá incluso más tiempo en tratar de burlarlos.

Every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are. The fact that it remains a problem means it is too damned hard to be cracked in full.

The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.

While the Germans intercepted and recorded many hours of SIGSALY transmissions, they were never able to interpret them.

Thatcher's study suggests a counterintuitive notion: the more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are. It's counterintuitive in part because we tend to attribute the growing intelligence of the technology world with increasingly precise electromechanical choreography

The errors of the great mind exceed in number those of the less vigorous one.

In the contemporary rendition, it's not that the slave technology grows stronger than us and learns to disobey our commands—it's that we deteriorate to the level of the machines. Smart technology makes us dumber.

As journalist Nancy Gibbs once quipped in Time magazine, "IQ gets you hired, but EQ gets you promoted.

In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

smarter people tend to think more like economists

The key is to assume that your readers are as intelligent and sophisticated as you are, but that they happen not to know something you know.

If all abstract thought is metaphorical, and all metaphors are assembled out of biologically basic concepts, then we would have an explanation for the evolution of human intelligence. Human intelligence would be a product of metaphor and combinatorics. Metaphor allows the mind to use a few basic ideas-substance, location, force, goal-to understand more abstract domains. Combinatorics allows a finite set of simple ideas to give rise to an infinite set of complex ones.

Existen buenas razones evolutivas para que los miembros de una especie inteligente intenten vivir en paz.