Quotes About Intelligence

I ask you: is dullness a gift? Intelligence a curse? I'm fort-seven years old and live alone.

His beauty had left him without cunning

In terms of being smart, Libby is very, very pretty.

Nada es imposible para alguien con una mente de principiante, es lo que Suzuki le está diciendo. Doug Larson, un periodista del siglo XX, lo dijo de una manera más graciosa: Algunos de los mayores logros del mundo fueron realizados por personas que no fueron lo suficientemente inteligente para saber que eran imposibles.

She was bright, intellectually curious, and sociable

If a white child appeared dull, he and he alone was thought to suffer from a lack of intelligence or a deficient education, but if a colored boy appeared dull, the entire race was deemed unintelligent.

Aye. And I can do without a viper-tongued wench.Wench? Wench? Lass is one thing, but did you just call me a wench? I'll have you know I'm a doctor. No one calls me a wench. I passed my boards with flying colors. I could take you apart and put you back together with my eyes closed.

All his genius and he's wrong. I can stay mad forever.

The Looming Tower.

Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people, he said. It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

Dude, you need to appreciate how goddamn gifted you are. You're so smart that I don't understand what you're talking about half the time, and we all know how brilliant I am." Finn winked. "Matty, you're amazing.

It wasn't me?" I snap. "That's got to be the goddamn dumbest thing you've ever said to me. You're way too smart to say something like that. Don't be such an asshole." "Okay, yes. It was you." "Awesome. That's great to hear.

Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.