Quotes About Intelligence

When a man dies a world perishes--the world which he bore in his head. The more intelligent the head, the more clear, significant, and comprehensive was its world, the more terrible its destruction.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

On every front, the CIA was turning its guerrillas into a far smarter and more lethal fighting force.

in other words then, if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

The genius of Monte Carlo—and its search-engine descendants—lies in the ability to extract meaningful solutions, in the face of overwhelming information, by recognizing that meaning resides less in the data at the end points and more in the intervening paths.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

actual brains, which turn out be much more like sensory processors than logic machines.

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of

Have you ever noticed, Oscar, that when people say, 'You're a smart woman', what they really mean to say is 'But I am smarter'?

Let's hope your lion has some brains, otherwise your child will be a dimwit.

I looked at his face and saw the decisive thrust of the adolescent jaw. No intelligent life there.

Living things have minds. Animated things have matrixes.

When he concentrates like that," Gaston told me, "if you're really quiet, you can hear the gears in his head turning. Sometimes you catch a faint puff of smoke coming out of his ears…

I checked his eyes and saw the familiar superiority. He was painfully aware that his world was populated with people of lesser intelligence, and his eyes told me he was regretfully resigned to slumming. Saiman.

You're an excellent analyst. Not everyone is born with the gift of snappy comeback.

wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins." I really liked that quote. It explained why, even though I was reasonably intelligent, I kept finding myself doing something really stupid.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.