Quotes About Intelligence

You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?

She was one in a million, Tyler was. A strong, intelligent woman with the beauty to launch ships and the courage to follow them into battle. Kane could recall a number of past occasions when he'd been glad to have her at his side when things had gotten sticky. Tyler never waited for the cavalry to come charging to the rescue, but instead grabbed a big stick and started swinging. She'd very nearly brained him once or twice.

It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!

Substantial empirical evidence indicates that individual differences in thinking dispositions and intelligence are far from perfectly correlated. Many different studies involving thousands of subjects have indicated that measures of intelligence display only moderate to weak correlations (usually less than .30) with some thinking dispositions (for example, actively open-minded thinking, need for cognition) and near zero correlations with others (such as conscientiousness, curiosity, diligence).

More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!

Dysrationalia is the inability to think and behave rationally despite adequate intelligence.

You had to be fundamentally stupid , I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Brains in the head saves blisters on the feet.

Every jackass thinks he's got horse sense.

Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.

The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.

As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught?

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Orgel's rule—"Evolution is smarter than you

it is possible that we are the only persons,> said another robot.

None of its components were conscious beings. As post-conscious AIs, they were well beyond that. They

In my experience, most people have a narrow view of intelligence, tending to think of it mainly in terms of academic ability. This is why so many people who are smart in other ways end up thinking that they're not smart at all. There are myths surrounding creativity as well.

Lo que Einstein parecía entender es que el desarrollo intelectual y la creatividad llegan a través de la comprensión de la naturaleza dinámica de la inteligencia.