Quotes About Intelligence

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Reflect on the silent intelligence inherent in all Self 2 actions and our attitude of arrogance and mistrust will gradually change. With it will dissolve the unnecessary self-instructions, criticisms and tendencies to overcontrol that tend to occupy the unfocused mind.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To see things in the seed, that is genius

He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent...

But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

Mountbatten was stunned by the rigidity of Jinnah's position. 'I never would have believed,' he later recalled, 'that an intelligent man, well-educated, trained in the Inns of Court, was capable of simply closing his mind

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

You can't fix stupid.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

Ignoraba si los arboles tenian sentimientos a la manera de los humanos. Al menos en lo que tocaba a los arboles cantores, si poseian cierta inteligencia. Podrian ama sin corazon?.

literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used

Everyone's unhappy if they have even a sliver of intelligence. Who can be happy in this world?

The summer before his senior year of high school, he took the SAT exam and got a perfect score on the math portion (800/800) and a 1430 overall. Then he took the ACT and scored a 34

You need to put on a pretty dress and have Corinne arrange your hair... and don't forget to bring your mind. --Julie de Bercy

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.