Quotes About Intelligence

Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.

In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity.

our brightest kids have been going downhill even faster than our average kids.

Nas?l da gerizekal? bu uygarl?k! Sanki pek ender bulunur bir keman gibi k?l?f?na kapat?p saklaman gerekiyorsa niçin verilsin sana bu beden?

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. . . . Concealed within this basic unhappiness with life and existence is the embryo of a growing intelligence, a special intelligence, usually buried under the immense weight of social shams. A person who is beginning to sense the suffering of life is, at the same time, beginning to "awaken" to deeper realities, truer realities.4

but what about students with exceptional intelligence who could compensate?

Physical beauty, however, was frequently more a detriment than an advantage if one wished ever to be respected and valued for one's mind.

When I would begin to apologize for my spotty education, stating that I often felt that my passionate, haphazard reading has given me some of the faults of the autodidact, he would speak up and praise my "native intelligence." Those were healing words for me to hear...

Too much reading is a bad habit. No one likes a girl who squints.

The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.

cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Mae West wrote her novels to disprove the accepted notion that, as a woman, it was considered stupid to be too clever. In a man's world, she had what it took to take what they had.

Hi shook his head. "The guy's not a rocket scientist. Or a rock scientist. He's dumb, is what I'm saying.

Okay. Computer and

Not one of God's more intelligent creatures." "Basically, a brain stem on two legs.

She had the IQ of pencil lead & a personality to match.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

Booth: "You're a smart ass, you know that?" Brennan: "Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass.

Two things should have become readily apparent to you by now: First, I'm not the brightest bulb in the pack when it comes to obvious things, and second ... well, it's the same as the first.

Exactly. You might not be the sharpest apple in the barrel, but you do have your wicks lit when it matters.

Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.