Quotes About Intelligence

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

That's one form of magic, of course. What, just knowing things? Knowing things that other people don't know.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.

Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!

No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up to the evolutionary ladder.

Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.

I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.

She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

Teppic hadn't been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!