Quotes About Intelligence

I nod. You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

contrary to previous assumptions, young men and women who possess the collective social graces of a herd of sex-crazed water buffalo and have an intelligence quotient in the range of Forrest Gump on three hits of acid, can be taught to sound like Wall Street wizards, as long as you write every last word down for them and then keep drilling it into their heads again and again—every day, twice a day—for a year straight.

You must take immediate of control the sale. 2 You must engage in massive intelligence gathering, while you simultaneously build massive rapport with your prospect. 3 You must smoothly transition into a Straight Line presentation, so you can begin the process of building absolute certainty for each of the Three Tens.

If they're not, then it will serve as a major red flag that the person who's asking them is not an expert in their field. For example, imagine being on the receiving end of the following series of intelligence-gathering questions, asked in exactly this order:

Identify the lookie-loos and the mistakes and remove them from your sales funnel as quickly as possible. Gather the necessary intelligence from the buyers in heat and the buyers in power, and then continue moving them down the Straight Line towards the close. Begin the process of turning the buyers in power into buyers in heat by amplifying their pain.

everything you'll need to create a practical blueprint for gathering intelligence in your industry. Now, as you go through each rule, you should keep relating it back to your own situation—making whatever changes are needed to your current method of prospecting. To that end, if you have a prospecting script or a list of intelligence-gathering questions, then you should have those in front of you before we begin. So, grab those now, and let's get started.

Nobody ever looks in the mirror and says, "Let's face it, I'm smarter than Gauss." And yet, in the last hundred years, the joined effort of all these dummies-compared-to-Gauss has produced the greatest flowering of mathematical knowledge the world has ever seen.

Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it's much better evidence that our world was programmed by people much smarter than us.

the interesting thing about the slime mold is that it makes pretty good decisions.

The less you know about a topic, the more you overestimate the quality of your knowledge.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Todos los idiotas se enamoran; así que muérete , listo.

Que no somos más estúpidos porque no tenemos más tiempo.

Evil is a form of idiocy. Kindness is a form of intelligence.

Consider the body of the ocean which rises every instant into me, & its ancient evaporation, & how it delivers itself to me, how the world is our law, this indrifting of us into us, a chorusing in us of elements, & how the intermingling of us lacks intelligence, makes reverberation, syllables untranscribable, inclingings, & how wonder is also what pours from us…

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.

Le démon ne peut rien sur la volonté, très peu sur l'intelligence et tout sur l'imagination.

La inteligencia humana es la memoria guiada por el entendimiento, el entendimiento hecho posible por la memoria, y la voluntad emergiendo de todo y dirigiéndolo todo.

ya sabéis que el gran Platón dijo que las matemáticas tienen la finalidad de conducir al espíritu a la contemplación de las esencias inteligibles.

Con el cultivo de la inteligencia vienen los gustos costosos

El pajarito fue hecho por Dios para ayudar a las criaturas a descubrir las cosas. Después, cuando el niño ya no lo necesita más, devuelve el pajarito a Dios. Y Dios lo coloca en otro niño inteligente como tú. ¿No es lindo eso?

Da grima escuchar las inepcias que a toda hora se dicen.

If you're a jerk, it doesn't matter how smart you are.