Quotes About Intelligence

A Political Warning & Prediction. — Let us guard against every enemy threatening the perpetuity of free republican institutions. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

Proverbs are the literature of reason.

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

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

He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance.

Dr. Giro was probably the only man on board qualified to recognize Rogers for what he was—the victim of an unusual medical disease, adiposogenital dystrophy, also known as Fröhlich'e syndrome, a pituitary disorder which frequently produces social maladjustment in which intelligence is not impaired, only warped.

In his first note on the case, Dulles had written: "I had met Olson on several occasions. He was the last person I expected to commit suicide. This was the makings of a serious problem.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Potente Gehirne stärken sich nicht durch Milch, sondern durch Alkaloide.

My dear, no one knows the power of good sense. It hasn't been built up or experimented with sufficiently.

retrospective smartness

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

The possession of such a big brain was no doubt an asset to these 'intelligent, spiritually sensitive, resourceful creatures'8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago.

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!

Belief, as the sagacious Robert Anton Wilson once remarked, "is the death of intelligence".

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force…. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." — Max Planck, 1944

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

I just have to be smarter than my own mind.

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.