Quotes About Intelligence

he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

Beautiful, funny, smart, sexual, and also neurotic? It's like filling an inside straight.

La puta de Mensa Mire, Kaiser, soy fundamentalmente un intelectual. Uno se puede buscar todas las furcias que quiera, claro. Pero mujeres inteligentes de verdad...no resultan fáciles de encontrar a corto plazo.

Like Bertrand Russell, I feel a great sadness for the human race. Unlike Bertrand Russell, I can't do long division.

Para acabar con los libros de recuerdos Memorias de los años veinte Alice Toklas me preguntó si estaba enamorado de Gertrude Stein ya que le había dedicado un libro de poemas aunque eran de T.S. Eliot y dije que sí, que la amaba, pero el asunto nunca podría funcionar porque ella era demasiado inteligente para mí y Alice Toklas estuvo de acuerdo, y luego nos pusimos unos guantes de boxeo y Gertrude Stein me rompió la nariz.

I'm an existential teleological aetheist. I believe there is an underlying intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

Once you perceive that the Universe is alive, a living, pulsating organism that has awareness and intelligence, vast intelligence, you will come to know that the Universe and everything in it reacts to stimulation-- your stimulation.

Language is the gateway to the human world. (...) Language is far older than civilization. (...) The fact that it is possible to teach apes to ride bicycles, but impossible to teach them to talk, suggests that it is the use of language rather than the use of tools which is the essential characteristic of humanity. The word, not the sword or the spade, is the power that has created human culture.

The difference between God and the rational animal is far greater than that between man and the insect world, and it is inconceivable that the human intelligence can understand the process of divine revelation, even though he is the recipient of it.

Modern man may deify science and technology and set up a religion of 'Scientific Humanism' which offers the utopian prospect of unlimited progress. But all such constructions are inevitably fragile, since they are dependent on human will as well as intelligence, and we have seen in our own generation how the irrational element in human nature may prove stronger than scientific intelligence.

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

V?šina lidí se domnívá, že neandertálci byli našimi p?edky, ve skute?nosti to však byl paralelní druh (lépe ?e?eno poddruh), který s Homo sapiens sout?žil o p?ežití. Výraz "sout?žil" je k nám p?itom pom?rn? laskavý, protože neandertálci nás p?ed?ili tak?ka ve všem. Byli siln?jší, vytrvalejší a pravd?podobn? také chyt?ejší.

Okay, so primitive man upgraded his hardware with a bigger brain

I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.

but if you're smart you don't hold up your hand in class and ask to be called on.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

First, it was by now clear that thousands of suspects shared direct responsibility for some atrocities. Contemporary estimates concluded that there were about 250,000 to 300,000 members of the SS (this includes the militarized Waffen-SS units), 70,000 full-time Nazi party executives, 15,000 in the party intelligence service Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 15,000 in the Gestapo, and as many as 1.5 to 2 million in various brownshirt paramilitary and militia units.

For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.

Some say it's what's on the inside that counts. If that were true about women, Playboy would be running centerfolds of brain tissues and gall bladders.

I'm Oracle, I know everybody.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are.