Quotes About Intelligence

Derek," I said after a moment, "have you ever noticed that women can be really stupid?" He put his arm around my shoulders. "And yet, they're generally smarter than men." "That's a sad, sad statement.

she was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.

Luck is only my lover, not my wife," replied Bahktiaan easily. He drew his saber. "If ever I wed, it will be skill and intelligence." "Tedious bedfellows," said Sergi.

Men do not appreciate intelligence in women. It is not considered to be feminine.

she was seven. The Yorks' emphasis on a light education was shortsighted. The

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

resent her, or feel like she was so much smarter than them that it was annoying. She played field hockey well enough that

Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt their presence here and there in his brain, like pockets of poison, harmless as long as you left them encysted and did not prick them.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

NT is alarmingly complex. Consisting of six million lines of code, the program is among humanity's most intricate handiworks. "No one mind can comprehend it all," Cutler says. A

Wood felt his professors were out of touch with reality and, while "very smart people in their limited field,... they had no business judging whether I did something good or bad." The

Before the computer, the animals, mortal though not sentient, seemed our nearest neighbors in the known universe. Computers, with their interactivity, their psychology, with whatever fragments of intelligence they have, now bid for this place." While

Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them." Marion

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

he had made such and such a move, then I had such and such a winning combination in mind.' But the 'great game' of chess is primarily psychological, a conflict between one trained intelligence and another, and not a mere collection of small mathematical theorems.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile

Rosie crosses her arm. "That's one of those things you say to sound smart, right?" she says. "But, really, you're trying to make someone else feel stupid.

She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.

the college had proven especially disappointing on this front. There were smart people, yes. There were people with whom you might have a decent conversation for twenty minutes. But to find someone who you wanted to talk to for 609 hours—that was rare.

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind