Quotes About Intelligence

War is intellect.

It's in Latin." "So? What does it say?" "I don't read Latin!" "You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?

Tell me he's not talking to Brandon," Claire said. "Um… Ok. He's not talking to Brandon." "You're lying." "Yeah. He's talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He's not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

You are just landmark stupid, aren't you? Has Guinness called yet about that world record?

Ah, I remember now why you ceased to amuse, Myrnin. You use honesy like a club.

Tota est scientia Knowledge is all

And knowledge is the purest form of power.

You looked like the sexiest woman in the world. Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world. And you're always right. You are so brilliant to recognize that.

Tota est scientia.

even the required Smart Librarian glasses.

Your education or your life, Claire. I'd rather you be alive and a little bit dumber.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

Yet though I saw myself straying ever farther from the path laid before me, I cried out then and still: why say woman may not follow her nature if it lead her to think, for must not even the meanest beast follow its nature? And why forbid woman or man from questioning what we are taught, for is not intelligence holy? The world and I have sinned against each other.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.

I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.

Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

For a dog, successfully manipulating a water faucet would be very difficult if not impossible.

Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine.

Stories were as delicious as food. As important as food. Bella could not live without stories. Stories were the greatest blessing of intelligence. They were food for the soul. They were medicine. You could live a thousand lives through stories—and learn to shape your own life into a story of the best kind.

Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems.

Border to border, from sea to shining sea, police cars and other government vehicles had for some time been equipped with 360-degree license-plate-scanning systems that recorded the numbers of the vehicles around them, whether parked or in motion, transmitting them 24/7 to regional archives, which in turn shared the information with the National Security Agency's vast intelligence troves in its million-square-foot Utah Data Center.

Every vehicle with a GPS is tracked by satellite, and the history of its travels is archived in the million-square-foot Utah Data Center of the National Security Agency, in its ever-growing cloud. The NSA is a jealous guardian of the knowledge that it has acquired, and police agencies do not have routine access to it.