Quotes About Intelligence

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children in modern society] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there, and they are taught and told what to believe; they are passive from the very beginning – and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told?

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Over-the-horizon targeting implies that you have eyes on the target, you've got some form of boots on the ground or intelligence development capability that's on the ground, Allen said in a Middle East Institute discussion Sept. 16. We have none, we've basically given it up.

Hemos sido condicionados para crear una imagen de nosotros mismos y vivir de acuerdo a esa imagen. Nosotros no vivimos al nivel de nuestros talentos, sino al de nuestras creencias. Por eso al final, el determinante fundamental no es lo inteligente que seamos, ni los conocimientos que poseamos, sino la mentalidad que se elija.

De modo que, perdida la esperanza de creerme inteligente o apasionado, me queda la menos presuntuosa de saberme sincero. Para saberme sincero he empezado estas notas, en las que castigo mi mediocridad son mi propio y objetivo testimonio.

Lo que en un ambiente es simplemente honrado, en otro puede ser simplemente imbécil.

Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.

Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self except by claiming absolute intelligence?

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

In my experience, the unmarried women are the smartest.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

No one told me anything, Tuya. I was always happy for you to be the smart one. But that didn't mean I was stupid.

The difference between you and me, Lord Doctor, is that you believe you are brilliant. I, however, prepare as if I am not.

I was clever in a severely limited sense

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.

We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters. (...) low order primate elevated to high order ecclesiastical primate, elevated still further in these darkest last days to ultimate prime A grade superior being. For doing that, which my father did without thinking.

Will, it makes me proud to say that you might just be on the verge of not being a complete idiot.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER.

Knowing isn't understanding

These people work hard and do their best, and they want the world to acknowledge that they're intelligent, valuable, and creative.