Quotes About Intelligence

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

Once, when they used to set their mouths in what they thought was the Boston Crimp, and ask me about the differences between the ordinary Negro and "the better-thinking Negro", I used to show my irritation by saying I did not know who the better-thinking Negro was. I knew who the think-they-are-better Negroes were, but who were the better thinkers was another matter.

Most people is thin-brained.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

I was always more street-smart than academic, as such, but I took a Mensa test once and did quite well in it.

Academics are very important.

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.

The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do or how they feel.

We have some of the best intelligence and crime fighting agencies in the world.

My only agenda is trying to make you laugh and say something smart.

A 'Starcraft' showdown between humans and AI itself will be interesting.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

From God, I have the strength and intelligence to have alternatives and can live even without football.

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

Every compartment in his brain which he had thought to find so full of wit was bolted fast; he grew positively stupid.

Ambos, con el espíritu henchido de ansias de éxito, poseían esa elevada inteligencia que pone al hombre en un plano de igualdad con todas las eminencias, y se veían relegado a lo más bajo de la sociedad. Lo injusto de este destino fue un vínculo poderoso.

para la gente vulgar la genialidad se parece a la locura.

A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.

L'un des malheurs auxquels sont soumises les grandes intelligences, c'est de comprendre forcément toutes choses, les vices aussi bien que les vertus.

Timpul este singurul capital al oamenilor care n-au alt? avere decât inteligen?a.

Mademoiselle de Watteville, with a little flush of pride in thinking of the success of her Belvedere, discerned in herself a vast superiority over every one about her. No one guessed that a little girl, supposed to be a witless goose, had simply made up her mind to get a closer view of the lawyer Savaron's private study.

Asl?nda cahil, ama do?u?tan zeki olan, dü?üncelerini sistemli bir bütünlük içinde geli?tirmeye al??k?n ki?iler, kendilerinden daha üstün olanlar?n kaç?rd??? yükseklikleri ula?t?.