Quotes About Intelligence

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.

You should be a billionaire, Randy. Thank god you're not. Why do you say that? Oh, because then you'd be a highly intelligent man who never has to make difficult choices - who never has to exert his mind. It is a state much worse than being a moron.

How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent.

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.

Most of their children had reached the age when they were no longer naturally endearing to anyone save their own parents; the size when their energy was more a menace than a wonder; and the level of intelligence when what would have been called innocence in a smaller child was infuriating rudeness. A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.

I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplish this incredible feat. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. Condense fact from the vapor of nuance. Hiro has never forgotten the sound of her speaking those words, the feeling that came over him as he realized for the first time how smart Juanita was.

In the decades before Zero, the Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.

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You're just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren't clever at all

Reptiles are just retarded birds," said the King of the Birds, "and so I am your King, thank you very much.