Quotes About Intelligence

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

On the brink of a second world war, the United States was the only global power without a centralized intelligence agency. The gathering of foreign intelligence, what there was of it, was relegated to the diplomats and attachés.

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends.

You look at shows on cable, and there's a lot of smart writing out there.

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

The automation of automation, the automation of intelligence, is such an incredible idea that if we could continue to improve this capability, the applications are really quite boundless.

Less intelligence capacity equals less safety.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

I've obviously got the brains. I've got the cardio.

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

Intelligence is not a moral category.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.