Quotes About Intelligence

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'm so storming clever that half the time, even I can't follow what I'm talking about.

Sometimes stupid is right," Megan said, then paused. "Hell. I hope nobody ever quotes me on that one.

That's Australia. She's not dim-witted, she just has trouble remembering to be smart.

More wars are lost to lack of information than are lost to lack of courage.

You should never debate an idiot, Shallan. No more than you'd use your best sword to spread butter.

The sum total of stupid people is somewhere around the population of the planet. Plus one.

That is good. I should not like to be maintained by one who lacks brain functions.

I'm smart enough not to follow my own advice, thank you very much.

He didn't like it when people used the word "stupid" for the way he was. People called one another stupid when they made mistakes. Dabbid wasn't a mistake. He could make mistakes. Then he was stupid. But not always. He couldn't think fast like others. But that made him different, not stupid. Stupid was a choice.

Kald?ramayaca?? bir silah? olan çocuktan korkmad???m gibi, düÅŸünmeyen bir adam?n akl?ndan da asla korkmayaca??m.

Janala is a fool, just bright enough to be proud of the wits she has, but stupid enough to be unaware of how outmatched they are.

The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.

Speak dumb person, please.

Igual que no temo a un niño con un arma que no puede levantar, nunca temeré a la mente de un hombre que no piensa.»

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

Dabbid wasn't a mistake. He could make mistakes. Then he was stupid. But not always. He couldn't think fast like others. But that made him different, not stupid. Stupid was a choice.

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!

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . 

You must understand that he knew the risks of living in an undeveloped civilization. Creatures of lesser intelligence cannot be held responsible for their acts of barbarity. You have not yet learned a better way.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough." "And what would be the right word, then?" "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.

Technically," M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, "the word 'sentient' just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, 'sapience' is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their linguistic biases.

curiosity is correlated with creativity, intelligence, improved learning and memory, and problem solving.

Einstein said, "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence." Curiosity's reason for existing is not simply to be a tool used in acquiring knowledge; it reminds us that we're alive. Researchers are finding evidence that curiosity is correlated with creativity, intelligence, improved learning and memory, and problem solving.