Quotes About Intelligence

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

There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

My mom insisted on saying such things, even though almost no one understood what she meant. My Dad sometimes called her Addlebrain because she read so many books.

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?"... "No." "Welt, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?

She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You couldn't sit with her and converse with her like you can normal people." It wasn't pride, he thought, that made her this way. "Shyness came into it. She couldn't lend herself to people. She was a little bit aloof from people, and I don't think she intended to be.

The least intelligent person carries the most epic message in their eyes.

There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.

As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read.

Hormones contribute to intelligence and creativity, critical thinking, abstract analysis.

should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read. Maybe this is tragic irony, or maybe cause and effect. I do not know. What I do

people often are, even smart people who read—but it is okay because librarians have witchlike librarian magic to pick the right book for you.

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn't amount to much.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

My God...it can think.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

fortaleza y el ingenio (bi? y m?tis), representadas respectivamente por Aquiles y Ulises (u Odiseo);

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

But actuality in the end proves unmanageable. It breaks in upon men's conceptions, changes them, and finally destroys them. Even where men's conceptions are sound and reasonable, where by their own creative power and their discernment of actuality they correspond to things, actuality in its capacity as Luck, will behave in an unreasonable way, as Pericles says, and overturn conceptions of the greatest nobility and intelligence.

En su libro Estrategia moderna (Modern Strategy) apuntó diecisiete factores a tener en cuenta: la gente, la sociedad, la cultura, la política, la ética, la economía y la logística, la organización, la administración, la información y la inteligencia, la teoría estratégica y la doctrina, la tecnología, la operatividad, el mando, la geografía, la fricción / el azar / la incertidumbre, el adversario y el tiempo.

una idea concreta de inteligencia práctica».