Quotes About Intelligence

The Best and the Brightest

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Since I would rather make of him [the child] an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide [tutor] with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.

Ihmistä voi arvostella monestakin syystä, mutta yhtä asiaa häneltä ei voi riistää: hän on kiistatta nerokas nisäkäs.

las mujeres inteligentes siempre me la han puesto dura. La verdad es que la inteligencia no es muy útil en las relaciones sexuales, sólo sirve más o menos para una cosa: saber en qué momento hay que ponerle la mano en la polla al hombre en los lugares públicos. A todos los hombres les gusta eso, es la dominación del mono, residuos de ese tipo, sería una estupidez hacer caso omiso; sólo queda elegir el lugar y el momento.

en la mayoría de las ocasiones la transmisión del saber es imposible, la diversidad de las inteligencias es extrema y que nada puede suprimir ni siquiera atenuar esa desigualdad fundamental

What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

L'intelligence, cette vertu sublime que définit l'art de lier ce qui, a priori, et pour la plupart, passe pour délié.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

La conclusión de todos los investigadores es que toda la gente del mundo es tan boba como se puede ser, y que la única manera de decirles algo es insultar perpetuamente su inteligencia. – «La época acientífica», serie de conferencias John Danz, 1963

Si la ciencia ha de avanzar, lo que necesitamos es la capacidad de experimentar, honestidad a la hora de informar de los resultados (los resultados han de difundirse sin que nadie diga cómo le hubiera gustado que fueran los resultados) y finalmente, una cosa importante, la inteligencia para interpretar los resultados.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events

TVs have become smart and humans have become stupid. Dependence on technology is rendering a human depleted of inner intelligence. With mechanization man has learnt to become mechanical. Don't get completely programmed and be digitized, switch on internally, become intelligent, internalize and MickeyMize.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.