Quotes About Intelligence

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.

You measure a player from the head up.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

Information is the most valuable commodity on the surface of the earth.