Quotes About Intelligence

I love a smart, educated woman.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

People assume that if you are an actress, you must not be very educated.

The attorney general is the only one who can authorize what's called an emergency FISA.

Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Nature is change, the continual elaboration of the new, a totality being created in an essentially open process of development without any preestablished model. "Life progresses and endures in time."16 The only part of this progression that intelligence can grasp is what it succeeds in fixing in the form of manipulable and calculable elements and in referring to a time seen as sheer juxtaposition of instants.

I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.

The Creator is not a careless mechanic.

Learning without thought," said Confucius, "is labor lost: thought without learning is perilous." When character and not intelligence, when the soul and not the head, is chosen by a teacher for the material to work upon and to develop, his vocation partakes of a sacred character. "It is the parent who has borne me: it is the teacher who makes me man.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

First, there is an old saying that "the future always foreshadows itself" via signs or signals of what is to come. Second, it is an accepted full part of wisdom to notice and take account of such signs. Third, human intelligence is considered one of the superlative attributes of our species, intelligence sufficient enough to recognize (theoretically anyway) disasters in the making. Fourth, however, there are no educational courses that might be called Recognition of Signs 101.

If Intelligence exists as a universal, then this would be the best universal way to divide up a planet so as to know where one is on it.

Our own life form was accordingly dubbed HOMO (genus Man), sapiens (species CAN THINK), sapiens (subspecies KNOWS HE CAN THINK).

survival-oriented intelligence was too stupid to recognize and foresee its existence ahead of time.

Furthermore, whether instinct, response, or impulse, none of them can be random or just flopping about. Otherwise, life forms that have them would quickly be reduced to a pulsating mess. Thus, some kind of "organizing intelligence" is implicit, and which, by all available clues, is energetic.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

door. "I'll let you know what's happening." "Do that," Beth said absently, her gaze fixed on Sam. "'Bye, Kendra." Kendra paused at the front door, looking back at them. So different. Beautiful, intelligent Beth, who

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.