Quotes About Intelligence

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

His worst fault is he thinks his brains entitle him to certain privileges.

Pour l'instant les mentalités sont encore très réactionnaires et on croit que les hommes sont plus intelligents que les femmes. Mais après tout, c'est peut-être mieux ainsi… Comme ça, nous, les femmes, pouvons agir sans que vous compreniez comment on s'y prend.

As to the Adam Kadmon which is shown in the following figure, the Crown represents the head; Wisdom, the brains; Intelligence which unites the two and produces the first triad, the heart or the understanding.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

Stupidity isn't invincible.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself…. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with … that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been … the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

There appears, also, to be a possibility of a mind in Nature, although we have seen that intelligence is, strictly speaking, impossible. There cannot be perception, memory, comparison, or judgment; but may there not be a perfect mind, unchanging, calm, and still?

Empathy smartens you

A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.