Quotes About Intelligence

When we try to understand something, more often than not, we kill it, and now I can feel the dangers of this encroaching on me: cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness...It's impossible to live if you're too aware, too thoughtful. Take nature for example: everything that lives happily and too a ripe old age is not very intelligent. Tortoises live for centuries, water's immortal, and Milton Friedman's still alive.

InteligenÅ£a te face nefericit, singuratic, s?rac, pe cînd deghizarea inteligenÅ£ei îÅ£i confer? o imortalitate de hîrtie de ziar ÅŸi admiraÅ£ia celor care cred în ce citesc.

Eu cred c? s? fii inteligent este mai r?u decât s? fii prost, pentru c? un prost nu-ÅŸi d? seama ce-i cu el, pe când cineva inteligent, chiar dac?-i umil ÅŸi modest tot o ÅŸtie.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

The truly intelligent person is one who knows when to use logic and when to rely on intuition.

My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn't blow his fucking eyebrows off.

Mi piace. Quando parlo con te mi sembra di essere più intelligente. Mi costringi a pensare.» «Pensare è una bella cosa» ha osservato Uman. «Pensare ci piace.» Quello che avevo detto era vero. Tutte le volte che ero con lui mi sentivo più intelligente, più acuta, più spiritosa. Mi sentivo tirata al limite. Le nostre conversazioni erano casuali, ma sotto la superficie ribolliva sempre qualcosa. Un «sottotesto», lo avrebbe probabilmente definito Uman.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

The man had the intelligence of the average fence post, the personality of a wounded warthog, and the stubbornness of a flea-bitten mule. Grace silently apologized to all the animals she'd just insulted.

There is no end of good that comes from being married to a smart woman.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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 need the heart of a brave man, the soul of a wise man, the protection of a CIA agent, the humor of a stand up comedian, and the love of Christ Himself.

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

Calvin): People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. (Hobbes): Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in the front?

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.