Quotes About Intelligence

The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts.

We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

Human being is the only creature that is stupid enough to feel as intelligent and intelligent enough to understand its stupidity!

Nature never allows man to understand it, however intelligent he thinks he may be. It tempts his reason by offering an initial success only to seduce and pull him on its side later, once for all. Finally, a man is left to sing the irrational songs of the nature!

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

I consistently found the pacifist dream intimately connected with the dream of wealth redistribution. My fellow dreamers and I thought we had better ideas than did the masses we imagined we were protecting. In our hubris we thought we were embodying great intelligence and common sense that surpassed all traditional ideas.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Human Intelligence means little for most of us but Beaver Contrivance, which produces spinning-mules, cheap cotton, and large fortunes. Wisdom, unless it give us railway scrip, is not wise.

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.