Quotes About Intelligence

I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

in order to undergo a far-reaching psychological development, neither outstanding intelligence nor any other talent is necessary. . .

Faith succeeds where intelligence says: "No way!"

All intelligent men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

The woman had the IQ of a squash.

Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered. "Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?" Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?" "I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.

you're smart, pretty, and you aren't a douche purse.

What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man." If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.

The wise will rise, and the fool will duel

Maybe not," I say. "I'll tell you what I do know, though. Every time that we let Brent fix something that none of us can replicate, Brent gets a little smarter, and the entire system gets dumber.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Information was the best weapon she could have.

The definition of elitist, as I understand it, is that those who are superior should hold power. I'm a reasonable person. Show me humans who are as competent or intelligent as dragons, and I'll bring them into government as well.

Dakota?" Izzy asks. "Am I smart enough to be a nerd?

What else can she do?" she asks. "She's not a trick monkey." "She'd never make it as a trick monkey. She only has one trick," Piper says. "487 times 6,421 is 3,127,027," Nat says.

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

For whan a man hath over-greet a wit,Ful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.

My wit is thynne.

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

In my view, difficult poetry is the most democratic, because you are doing your audience the honour of supposing that they are intelligent human beings. So much of the populist poetry of today treats people as if they were fools. And that particular aspect, and the aspect of the forgetting of a tradition, go together.

our social needs for intimacy, belonging, and acceptance. Mate preferences for status can explain our esteem needs for recognition, fame, and glory. Mate preferences for intelligence, knowledge, skills, and moral virtues can explain our cognitive needs to learn, discover, and create, and our self-actualization needs to fulfill our potential (for example, to display the highest possible mate value given our genetic quality).

By intelligently choosing their sexual partners for their mental abilities, our ancestors became the intelligent force behind the human mind's evolution.