Quotes About Intelligence

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

The NSA employs more mathematicians, buys more computer hardware, and intercepts more messages than any other organization in the world.

the enemy of security: repetition leads to patterns, and cryptanalysts thrive on patterns.

Enigma was considered invulnerable, until the Poles revealed its weaknesses.

This apparently innocuous observation would lead to the first great breakthrough in cryptanalysis.

The average dog has the same IQ level as a three-year-old child. This means that most dogs are capable of operating your mobile phone and logging onto your social media accounts when you're not looking.

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life—sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself—presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Man's greatest advances these last few generations have been made by the application of human intelligence to the management of matter. Now we are confronted by a more difficult problem, the application of intelligence to the management of human relations. Unless we can advance in that field also, the very instruments that man's intelligence has created may be the instruments of his destruction.

Give me, next good, an understanding wife,By nature wise, not learned much by art.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

This was not some regular dame. No, this was a doll with high tastes, with ideas dancing in her head like fireflies.

The smarter you are, the sexier you are.

The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.