Quotes About Intelligence

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

She felt that these clean-shaven men with bristling eyebrows were suavely concealing their doubts of her intelligence and her probity. Their jaws were like so many mouse-traps, baited with commonplaces.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Some are rich and some are poor. Some are beautiful, some aren't. Some are brilliant, some aren't. But when we get sick—then, everybody is equal. Everybody must have equal right to the best medical treatment we can provide.

When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that the other person is unable to see any point of view other than their own.

I'm not sarcastic. I'm just intelligent beyond your understanding.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

I'm allergic to stupidity. I break out in sarcasm.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty.

Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than a bag of hair.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life. He would have been a lot better off thick as a plank.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Fuk "youth" ... how about a fountain of SMART ?

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

The Prophet's life is an invitation to a spirituality that avoids no question and teaches us—in the course of events, trials, hardships, and our quest—that the true answers to existential questions are more often those given by the heart than by the intelligence. Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand.

The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: "He [God] taught Adam the names of all things."8 Reason, intelligence, language, and writing will grant people the qualities required to enable them to be God's khalifahs (vicegerents) on earth, and from the very beginning, Quranic Revelation allies recognition of the Creator to knowledge and science, thus echoing the origin of creation itself.9

We are then content with some well-intended speeches, and as far as the rest is concerned we would have to rely on God. As if "reliance on God" means a lack of intelligence or competence in action; as if the Qur'anic Revelation has not distinguished between orientation and state, between where we should be and where we are; between the actualised foundation of a social project and the well-intended expression of its form.

Comprendre n'est pas justifier, l'empathie autorise cette distinction et l'intelligence permet, par la compréhension, d'adopter une position critique nous permettant de chercher des solutions.

J'ai appris qu'il fallait dire "Paix!" à ceux qui lancent des cris de haine contre votre être, votre présence ou sur votre passage. Pas toujours facile. C'est le sens de toutes les spiritualités, le profond jihâd du cÅ"ur et de l'intelligence... Paix, oui, avec force, tranquilité et dignité, à tous les instigateurs de mensonges, d'hypocrisies et de guerres.