Quotes About Intelligence

Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they're a genius.

Individually, the audience is stupid. Collectively, the audience is a genius.

Sometimes it seems ... as though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved.

An idiot, or natural fool, is one that hath had no understanding from his nativity; and therefore is by law presumed never likely to attain any.

If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Those people who look so together. They're as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You're as smart as any of them.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Dash had explained that owls symbolize knowledge and wisdom

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

I have never heard Ill of some Person, I always impute it to defective Intelligence; for there are none without their Faults, no not one.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Processes without intelligent and rigorous scrutiny are not enough.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents where my mind was at maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

That's because they're people, only smarter. They know us better than we know them, and a lot of them have a sense of humor. They're exactly like us minus our useless mental power and thumbs.

We can argue about their intelligence (which we would likely define in human-centric terms anyway), their ability to understand human language, or even the extent to which they really understand and know the world around them, but there's no argument that can convincingly show that animals don't feel pain, and that they have no interest in avoiding that pain. If anything, animals are more sensitive to the world around them than we are, given their heightened sensory abilities.