Quotes About Intelligence

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?" "Dumb luck," Wit said. "In that I'm lucky you're all so dumb.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.

If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.

That's because Wit is an asshole

Oh, but I'm a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees—and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it!

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people.

You should try not to talk so much, friend," he suggested. "You'll sound far less stupid that way.

I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity." The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound. "Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you.

I ain't grouchy," Teft snapped. "I just have a low threshold for stupidity.

Nedd," she said, "stupid is stupid." "No it's not. You're talking to an expert.

He doesn't know as much as he thinks," Preservation whispered. "That is his weakness. The . . . weakness . . . of all clever men

Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.

Only a fool thinks that weapons are more important than strategy and motion.