Quotes About Intelligence

The gossip will carry to Attolian spies, who will report to Relius, Attolia's master of spies, and he will carry the news to her. Her secretary of the archives, murmured the magus. Hmm? asked the queen. Secretary of the archives, Relius. Master of spies is so- Accurate? Overtly direct, said the magus. Eddis laughed.

You are wary of treachery? More wary of stupidity.

I am so sick of people who all seem to be smarter than I am and know more than I do. I wanna go back to the farm. These people make my family look easy to get along with.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning

You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.

The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.

Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one.

By Gaia's left breast, Hades, you really are a moron

Stupid people never doubted themselves. Intelligent ones, however, went straight to self-examination whenever anything bad happened. Did I deserve this? Did I bring it on myself? Did I somehow do something that I shouldn't have?

I swear to you, even if he was shaved bald he'd have more hair than wits.

When poetry stirs in my imagination it is almost always from an indirect place, where language is abstract, where the mood and energy is evocative of submerged emotional intelligence and experience.

A test. Other races on other worlds have tried it and failed. Wiped themselves out. Overpopulated to the point of total ecological collapse. Destroyed themselves in wars. We've got to make sure that the human race discovers nanotechnology in the right way and develops it wisely, usefully. Not for power. Not for weapons. Humanely. Then we'll be ready to meet the other races that have succeeded, that have passed this test and become truly intelligent, truly adult.

Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

When I entered Yale, I had to face two important facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person — I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person — I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

Do you have a brain?" And if the answer was yes, then she said, "Then you could have thought your way out of it.

The important point here is that I had the same brain when I was still at the bottom of the class as I had when I reached the top of the class.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. —Nathan Mayer Rothschild

intelligence has nothing to do with IQ or SAT scores. It simply means being patient, disciplined, and eager to learn;

The heart of Graham's argument is that the intelligent investor must never forecast the future exclusively by extrapolating the past.