Quotes About Intelligence

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Throughout the length and breadth of the world, the smart ones sharpen their minds in the schools and universities. In Greece, they sharpen them on the suckers. The more suckers there are around, the more smart ones there are.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

Votever hyu say, meester "I'm so schmot I don't gotta make sense.

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.

Need for cognition" is the psychological term for the tendency to engage in and enjoy hard mental slogs. [...] superforecasters score high in need-for-cognition tests.

tip-of-your-nose delusions can fool anyone, even the best and the brightest—perhaps especially the best and the brightest.

She clearly had the gift. Partly, the gift was just plain, old-fashioned love. Partly, it was a questioning intelligence. Real teachers had a kind of longing, a searching excitement of soul. They wanted to find out things. They didn't settle for the old, easy answers. They lived in their minds more than in the world.

The emergent post-war fascist groups all believed in the Protocols: British intelligence reports noted that their meetings heard audience remarks such as 'Kill the Jews', 'Perish Judea', 'We hate them', and 'Bastards'.

Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.

Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Ni känner väl till släkten Pennyroyals motto: 'När det hettar till gömmer sig förståndigt folk under stora möbler'?

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

scoffing cometh not of wisdom...

was one of the worst—arguably the worst—intelligence failure in modern history.

Superforecasting does require minimum levels of intelligence, numeracy, and knowledge of the world, but anyone who reads serious books about psychological research probably has those prerequisites. So

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence.