Quotes About Intelligence

Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny.

Once again the Saint had proved, to his own sufficient satisfaction, as he had proved many times in his life before, that desperate dilemmas are usually best solved by desperate measures and that intelligent foolhardiness will often get by where too much discretion betrays valour into the mulligatawny. And

I think they call it EQ, emotional quotient. It's kind of like IQ, but it means you're able to sense shifts in

The Agnostic is one who asserts 'what no one denies' that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.

Intelligence forbids tears.

I may not be smart enough to debate you point-for-point on this, but I have the feeling about 60% of what you say is crap.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

He was sarcastic and spookily smart and, on some level, basically a kind person who just needed a ton of therapy and maybe some mood-altering drugs. Something to selectively inhibit the voracious reuptake of serotonin that was obviously going on inside his skull 24-7.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

And she had those things that one likes about magicians: she was disgustingly bright and rather sad and slightly askew.

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The wringing of hands may achieve little, but inspiration and education precede intelligent action.

The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.

Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Both sacred power and temporal power became swollen by absorbing the new inventions of civilization; and the very need for an intelligent control of every part of the environment gave additional authority to those dedicated either to intelligence or control, the priest or monarch, often united in a single office.

Even if the rest of man's history were lost, the vocabularies, the grammars, and the literature of all his present languages would testify to a mind infinitely above the level of any other living creature's. And if some sudden mutation afflicting the progeny of the entire human race resulted in the birth of only deaf-mutes, the outcome would be almost as fatal to human existence as that of a nuclear chain reaction.

The art works of women, who are intelligent and creative, need to be showcased and understanding their thoughts through art can definitely urge us to support them better.

In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.