Quotes About Intelligence

You realize that gay-bashing is the IQ demarcation line of the subzero intellect?

And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps," said Serge. "You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where—' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read' . . . This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are staples. The four countries of highest interest - Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - are constants.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

I think if you want to be seen as an intelligent woman, you can't be someone who feels empowered and sexy. I just don't understand who makes these rules, and frankly, I'm not interested in them.

If you don't have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.

Players have to adapt nowadays, and if you have a good football brain, if you can read the game, you can manage it.

There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.