Quotes About Intelligence

At the most basic level of protecting a writer's personal safety, democratic countries offer a further advantage. If you steal hundreds of thousands of documents from the Russian state and put them online, the FSB will try to kill you. Steal American secrets, and the CIA will not.

Any [artificial intelligence] smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it." —IAN MCDONALD, River of Gods It

The prime minister had abused his position as minister in charge of the SIS to embarrass another politician only months before an election.

I was not jealous of his intelligence — he is entirely superficial, which is why he never knows what to look like. Or what music to make. Or whether to be a boy or a girl.

I'm tired to stupidity. My apologies.

Good surveillence and good books don't mix.

Unusual to find a caterer who knows Caesar's commentary." "You really know how to endear yourself to a girl.

Quiet mouth, bright mind.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions. Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward. When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.

Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.

The intelligent leftist admits that his generation will not construct the perfect society, but trusts in a future generation. His intelligence discovers his personal impotence, but his leftism prevents him from discovering man's impotence.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

The plethora of laws is a sign that nobody knows anymore how to command intelligently. Or that nobody knows anymore how to obey freely. When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

The Marxist has no doubt about the perversity of his adversary. The reactionary merely suspects that his adversary is stupid.

An age is civilized if it does not reserve intelligence for professional work.

Die Jahre der Jugend genügen in einer zivilisierten Gesellschaft, um die Sensibilität, die Intelligenz, die Seele zu erziehen. Heute ist dies durch den Einsatz eines ganzen Lebens kaum zu erreichen

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.