Quotes About Intelligence

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

Aku mengerti bagaimana kecintaanmu kepada tanah air. Aku menghargai semangatmu itu. Tapi hanya itu yang kaoian miliki. Kalian juga perlu taktik yang bijaksana dan otak yang dingin.

Kalau menghendaki mata-mata yang hebat, berilah aku seorang pelacur yang baik. Mereka sangat baik dalam tugasnya.

I was ungrateful to Providence by not being happy; and, yet, does happiness always result from the gifts of intelligence? I tend to believe the contrary: one must pay for the gift of knowledge by wishing not to know...

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

But if God had wanted us to think with just our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

If God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did he give us a brain?

Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.

Tem um lado mau – o mais forte e o que predominava embora eu tenha tentado esconder por causa de você – nesse lado forte eu sou uma vaca, sou uma cavala livre e que pateia no chão, sou mulher da rua, sou vagabunda – e não uma 'letrada'. Sei que sou inteligente e que às vezes escondo isso para não ofender os outros com minha inteligência, eu que sou uma subconsciente.

Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Death is only beginning to frighten me again. I had stopped being afraid of it after the revelation of that pale, pure morning when I understood that I was no different from other men. Scarcely more intelligent than the most stupid.

I often say that if we , as a people, had as much religion in our hearts and souls as we have in our legs and feet, we could change the world. (p.15) It is my opinion that sincerity is not enough for preaching ministry. The minister must be both sincere and intelligent. (p.18)

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking defector from the former Soviet bloc, says the KGB killed dissident Alexander Litvinenko precisely because he spilled the beans on how Soviet intelligence spawned Islamic terrorism and even trained al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.[7

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He

By analyzing public data with the help of computers, people can uncover secrets without ever seeing a classified database.

It's easy to mistake familiarity with computers for intelligence, but computer literate certainly doesn't equal smart. And computer illiterate sure doesn't mean stupid. Which do we need more: computer literacy or literacy?

Cryptology is a game of decoding. But it doesn't require high intellect to unravel what the less educated have encoded.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.