Quotes About Intelligence

My father says that intelligence is the ability to see reality quickly.

Retail small traders have become more intelligent than companies on stock market because every day they see that market opens up in green but ends in red so they do not get lured of high price opening and rather they do short selling everyday to make profits. Investors numbers are decreasing fast.

We cooks have the highest intelligence, and we have opinions about everything. Why? Because the qualities we have come to know as 'taste' and 'a deft hand in the kitchen' are essentially courage, and that is the prerequisite to alchemy: a set of nerves so steely and seasoned, which always know how much garlic, how many chilis, how much salt and pepper to put into each dish, at any second, in any situation, in any city, for every mouth, for every type of hunger.

Why can't bilingualism be seen as an extra resource? Is it because kids who can think in two languages are smarter? (from the book Attitude, 2002)

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.

A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals.

It's Simon. He's missing." "Ah," said Magnus, delicately, "missing what, exactly?" "Missing," Jace repeated, "as in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared." "Maybe he's gone and hidden under something," Magnus suggested. "It can't be easy getting used to being a rat, especially for someone so dim-witted in the first place." "Simon's not dim-witted," Clary protested angrily. "It's true," Jace agreed. "He just looks dim-witted. Really his intelligence is quite average.

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

Stupid people make bad rulers.

Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.

The more you know, the more you know.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself – that one laughs at humour but savours wit.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Smart people are often too smart to take advice from others.

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Smart is overrated. Most of the harm done in this world is done by people who fancy themselves smart. And they are—book smart. But most really smart people have no sense. They value their brains too highly. I'd rather have someone with sense. And a little heart.

That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

Though any species on any dumb gobworld may develop sentience (the poor bastards), no government ever does'?