Quotes About Intelligence

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

The normal man of intelligence has something of a contempt for linguistic studies, convinced as he is nothing can well be more useless. Edward Sapir - 1924

His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

You're too clever to be a soldier." Then she shook her head. "Don't say it. I know. We need our soldiers to be clever. I do know." "Thank you," he murmured. "You can do all of the conversation. Make it easier for me.

One of the pleasures of dealing with intelligent men, Lin Fong decided, watching seven people ride out the eastern gate in early-morning sunlight, was how much did not have to be spoken.

Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.

A legnagyobb szegénységi bizonyítvány mi vagyunk – mondja Adorján. – Szegénységi bizonyítvány err?l az országról. Hogy az értelmesek hiába találkoznak, nem tudnak mihez kezdeni önmagukkal és egymással.

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

No one in this world, so far as I know… has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

pattern, especially pattern that appeared on different scales at the same time. They had a taste for randomness and complexity, for jagged edges and sudden leaps. Believers in chaos—and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists—speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems

Believers in chaos-and they sometimes call themselves believers, or converts, or evangelists-speculate about determinism and free will, about evolution, about the nature of conscious intelligence. They feel that they are turning back a trend in science toward reductionism, the analysis of systems in terms of their constituent parts: quarks, chromosomes, or neurons. They believe that they are looking for the whole.

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as "the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board."?

The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.

Farmer said, On a philosophical level, it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can't say what it's going to do next. At the same time, I'd always felt that the important problems out there in the world had to do with the creation of organization, in life or intelligence. But how did you study that?

The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels or abdomen. Our surgeon, however, has observed the fact that injuries to the brain affect other parts of the body, especially in his experience the lower limbs. He notes the drag or shuffle of one foot, presumably the partial paralysis resulting from a cranial wound, and the ancient commentator carefully explains the meaning of the obsolete word used for shuffle.

Smart bombs do not compensate for dumb kids.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue," resumed the whisper.

Just because I don't call you out on something, doesn't mean I don't know about it. Don't mistake my silence for stupidity.