Quotes About Intelligence

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I feel sharp again.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

Iron Man is my favorite superhero.

I've never loved a character as much as I do Niska. The way she's been written is so complex, with huge amounts of light and dark. It's a really satisfying challenge to play someone who is superhuman in their intelligence and physical ability but completely naive when it comes to certain aspects of life.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I was a writer. I couldn't sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They'd all say to me, 'The average man won't understand it.' You know, they're superior to the average man.

People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.