Quotes About Intelligence

As to smart women making foolish choices, in the real world, this is not what's going on. These women are not doing the choosing. They are being chosen. And it's not because they are giving off peculiar, neurotic-type signals. It's because they are attractive, intelligent women who attract men. The problem is that so many of the men they are attracting suffer from the same problem—the commitment problem.

The gods know, happiness is a precious and rare commodity, and indeed it seems that the more intelligent and perceptive the individual, the less happy they generally are. The cost of seeing things as they are, I expect.

Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

Inter Services Intelligence-aided sleeper modules within the country are more dangerous than a nuclear bomb.

I always had a slight problem in that my older brother is extremely bright. He's a neurophysiologist and a don at Magdalen College, and I always felt I was stupid because I couldn't get anything like the same results as him.

I was a slightly geeky kid.

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

I think I worked out in my head it's something like 75 training sessions before you've got them pretty well drilled. You're not going to get that in international football so you're relying on their intelligence and the ability of the players to slot in.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Little boys are different from little girls, tend to develop more slowly, and are generally more stupid than their sisters.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Look, the American people are smart.