Quotes About Intelligence

She will not be clever, but still, I see no reason why she should not one day lead a satisfying life separately from her sister. Perhaps she might even marry. All men do not seek intelligence in a wife, and Emmeline is very affectionate.

It's complicated' says either I'm too stupid to figure it out, or I'm not in the inner circle for privy information." Not

A whole lot of good my IQ came when it came to judging his character.

Beach's conspicuous intelligence would take him far if only he would stir himself to choose a direction

Oh, wise young judge.

A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.

Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

Another one says she has asnap-off crotch. What do you think she means by that? I'm a little worried,though, about all these outbreaks of lifestyle diseases. I carry a reinforced ribbed condom at all times. One size fits all. But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus.

The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.

There's a dolphin's brain in my in-box but come see me in forty-eight hours.

Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet. They see and they hear. Like ancient monks, you know, who recorded knowledge, wrote it painstakingly down. These systems collect and process. All the secret knowledge of the world.

We have become dependent upon our technologies to navigate the world, to hold intelligent conversation, to write intelligently, and to remember.

Technology does not make us smarter. People do not make technology smart. It is the combination of the two, the person plus the artifact, that is smart. Together, with our tools, we are a powerful combination. On the other hand, if we are suddenly without these external devices, then we don't do very well. In many ways, we do become less smart.

Technology does not make us smarter. People do not make technology smart. It is the combination of the two, the person plus the artifact, that is smart. Together, with our tools, we are a powerful combination.

The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

It seems natural for people to blame their own misfortunes on the environment. It seems equally natural to blame other people's misfortunes on their personalities. Just the opposite attribution, by the way, is made when things go well. When things go right, people credit their own abilities and intelligence. The onlookers do the reverse. When they see things go well for someone else, they sometimes credit the environment, or luck.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.

That's what I like about you," Michael remarked. "Your finely honed sense of deviousness.

Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.

Yes, but I don't think it was deliberate. He just didn't get it, that the question was ambiguous and didn't mean that her brother had sex with them." "She did, though?" Brunetti nodded again. "She's much brighter than he is." "Women usually are," Paola said

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue.

I met her my first year of college, and was initially attracted to her because she seemed an intelligent, brooding malcontent like myself; but after about a month, during which time she'd firmly glued herself to me, I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath.

The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.