Quotes About Intelligence

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else. and Who cares? and It's all bullshit anyway.

That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

a quick intelligence he squanders on an insatiable need to advance some impression of himself—that

All on a real superficial-type level, since Watson's basically got like a little liquid-filled nubbin at the top of his spine where his brain ought to be.

Or that he's slow, Hal's brother is, technically, Stanford-Binet-wise, slow, the Brandeis C.D.C. found---but not, verifiably not, retarded or cognitively damaged or bradyphrenic, more like refracted, almost, ever so slightly epistemically bent, a pole poked into mental water and just a little off and just taking a little bit longer, in the manner of all refracted things.

Worship your intellect, being seing as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge og being found out. And so on.

no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Mais s'ils travaillent en s'appuyant sur la tradition intelligente, leur ouvrage sera l'expression de leur coopération harmonieuse et du plaisir qu'ils y ont pris. Aucune intelligence, même de la plus basse espèce qui soit, n'y a été écrasée ; au contraire, elle a été plutôt subordonnée et utilisée afin que personne, du maître au plus modeste ouvrier, ne puisse s'écrier : c'est mon oeuvre

If God does exist then it seems to me that rather than solve our problems for us, he or she instead provides us with the potential for great intelligence, understanding, wisdom, and compassion. It is then left up to us to use these to solve our own problems.

The enemy will never attack you where you are strongest. … He will attack where you are weakest. If you do not know your weakest point, be certain, your enemy will

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

Educated men are so impressive!

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.