Quotes About Intelligence

Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

Except cats couldn't read minds, of course.

La bestia era hermosa, pensó. Hermosa como lo es una cobra, cuya posible fealdad queda eclipsada por sus movimientos airosos y veloces, por una admirable inteligencia predadora.

I have more faith in my God than to believe He would give me a mind and then ask me not to use it.

Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment, she added, because we're pretty damn good at stupid.

Fine." Desjani sighed. "Admiral, I recommend we get our intelligence officer up here to see if he can craft lovely poems for the singing spider wolves.

I discovered that you can't train people how to trade by just imparting knowledge. The key to trading success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. Think of all the bright people that choose careers on Wall Street. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.

You're a Genius all the time

In these cases, the mind knows what it's doing better than the guile, because the mind flows, the guile dams up, that is, the mind stride but the guile limps. And that's no guileless statement, however, and that's no Harvard like, as MIT will measure soon with computers and docks of Martian data.

But Dean's intelligence was every bit as formal and shining and complete, without the tedious intellectualness. And his "criminality" was not something that sulked and sneered; it was a wild yea-saying overburst of American joy; it was Western, the west wind, an ode from the Plains, something new, long prophesied, long a-coming (he only stole cars for joy rides).

He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances.

To man, alone among the animals, has been given the awful privilege of reason. Man, with his brain, can penetrate the intoxicating show of things and look upon the universe brazen with indifference toward him and his dreams.

'Twin Peaks' is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.

When you have two people who are the smart girls, then the 'smart' ceases to exist; they're just women who are smart.

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

I don't have a type. I am more of a sapiosexual person. The girl has to be intelligent.