Quotes About Intelligence

Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.

People are smarter now. That's one thing we taught them. Don't trust anybody. Don't trust your government. Don't trust the media. Don't trust anybody over thirty.

Intelligent people are not always guided by their intelligence.Sometimes fear is a little more powerful.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

I'll take crazy over stupid any day.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Qué fuerza de realiadad tienen los pensamientos de la gente que piensa poco y, sobre todo, que no divaga. A veces dicen "buenos días", pero de qué manera tan inteligente.

Los que bien conocen la ciencia mujeril saben que las dueñas chicas mejoran a las grandes en agudeza e ingenio y en que lo tienen todo más a mano.

As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.

Las personas realmente inteligentes dudan sobre todo y sobre todos, pero por encima de todo dudan de ellos mismos.

Quisiera que el prurito de ser inteligentes no estuviese siempre entre nosotros.

Los niños, en contra de la opinión general de los adultos, no son imbéciles. Son capaces de percibir sentimientos complejos desde muy pequeños.

the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.

Dos factores son cruciales para entender la expansión y reestructuración cerebral de los humanos. Uno de ellos, un cambio en la alimentación con la incorporación regular de proteínas animales, lo hizo posible. Otro factor, el aumento de la complejidad social, le dio sentido. La inteligencia se desarrolló, en gran medida, como inteligencia social.

La mano es el instrumento de nuestras obras, el signo de nuestra nobleza, el medio por donde la inteligencia reviste de forma sus pensamientos artísticos, y da ser a las creaciones de la voluntad, y ejerce el imperio que Dios concedió al hombre sobre todas las criaturas.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Better to allow people to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

There's a fine line between criminality and genius." -Dan Cahill

If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.