Quotes About Intelligence

The most foolish is he who underestimates another's abilities.

?nsan der: "Okyanustan daha zekiyim ben." Olas?d?r; dahas? oldukça da do?rudur; ama onun okyanusta yaratt??? ürküntüden daha ço?unu okyanus onda uyand?r?r: Kan?tlanmas? gereksiz bir ?ey.

Le goût est la qualité fondamentale qui résume toutes les autres qualités. C'est le nec plus ultra de l'intelligence. Ce n'est que par lui seul que le génie est la santé suprême et l'équilibre de toutes les facultés.

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

To defeat the enemy, we must know him first

The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.

It's simply not the case that people use one particular lobe, or a circumscribed area of the brain, to read a novel, or write an essay, or solve an equation, or calculate the angle of a triangle. And, unfortunately, neuroscience has yet to reach the stage at which it can peer into the brain and determine capacity for solving simultaneous equations or readiness to learn calculus.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

When you place your hand in moving water, you will feel the curves of power looping your bones, addressing your skin with logarithmic sways. Magnify that ten or twenty thousand times and you will be killed by the force. Then your body will know.... But pay attention in that moment and you will feel the intelligence of water upon you. It will tell stories of itself against your body in boils and surges and vacancies.

We will still need to consider the implications of our blind faith in technology because the iGods' promises did not point to or include the divine. Instead, they suggested that we are becoming divine as we develop such amazing intelligence within smaller and smaller devices, so small that a point of Singularity will blur humanity with machine, our minds with eternity. Should we find this inspiring or distressing? What is the telos of technology—the end goal?

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.

a beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.

Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.

During World War II, while the Americans used Navajo Indians speaking their native language for radio communications, the Japanese used speakers of the Kagoshima dialect to keep communications secret. To me, it sounded like

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

It's better to shut up and appear stupid than open your mouth and remove all doubt.