Quotes About Intelligence

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.

God cannot save them from fools.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!

A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by it's own farts

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.