Quotes About Intelligence

This is why I'm glad I'm not human. They come up with stuff like this. I said, "No. That's a human thing to do. Constructs aren't that stupid.

Then Indigo and her warrior sisters had come, and they were strong and intelligent and sensible, when they weren't being rash, silly, and brave to the point of blind idiocy.

Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

CIA documents indicate that LSD was employed as an aid to interrogation on an operational basis from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s.

The CIA later found out that Sandoz had never produced LSD in quantities even remotely resembling ten kilograms. Apparently only ten milligrams were for sale, but a CIA contact in Switzerland mistook a kilogram, 1000 grams, for a milligram (.001 grams), which would explain the huge discrepancy.

I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

I cannot reveal how the UVF knew the precise characters of both men's statements but I have been informed that the UVF leadership were aware of the content of Moore's statement within forty-eight hours of it being made.

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Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity – beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.

Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.

We are old fools. The more educated and intelligent we become, the less we know and understand.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Cei care cred ca inteligenta are vreo noblete, cu siguranta ca n-au destula pentru a-si da seama ca nu e decat un blestem.

CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sînt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.

RenunÅ£area la inteligenÅ£a veritabil? este preÅ£ul care trebuie pl?tit pentru a avea certitudini, ÅŸi este întotdeauna o cheltuial? invizibil? la banca conÅŸtiinÅ£ei noastre, în sensul ?sta, îi prefer pe cei care nu se-nv?luie în mantia raÅ£iunii ÅŸi recunosc caracterul fictiv al credinÅ£ei lor.

In Ecclesiastul scrie <>;dar neavand nicodata fericirea sa merg la catehism cu ceilalti copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. Crestinii au mare noroc ca sunt de foarte tineri pusi in garda impotriva riscului inteligentei; ei vor sti, toata viata sa se fereasca de ea. Fericiti cei saraci cu duhul.

În Ecclesiastul scrie «c? cel ce îÅŸi înmulÅ£eÅŸte ÅŸtiinÅ£a îÅŸi sporeÅŸte suferinÅ£a»; dar, neavând niciodat? fericirea s? merg la catehism cu ceilalÅ£i copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. CreÅŸtinii au mare noroc c? sunt de foarte tineri puÅŸi în gard? împotriva riscului inteligenÅ£ei; ei vor ÅŸti, toat? viaÅ£a, s? se fereasc? de ea. FericiÅ£i cei s?raci cu duhul.