Quotes About Intelligence

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

I've always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she's shaped.

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

The sharp employ the sharp.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

I was always a guy that would study for three hours and barely get an A on the test and you would have another guy next to me who would study for maybe 30 minutes and ace it.

There are really smart baseball players. It's a thinking person's game.

I wish we were smart enough that, every time we had an idea for a script, that it was great right off the bat.

I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.

Being funny is very complex.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ, I Am That

the people are intelligent, the people are just, and in time these characteristics must have an effect on their Representatives.

appealing to race and religious hatreds is so thoroughly un-American and so contemptible that we are surprised that any intelligent person would engage in such perfidy for even one performance," The Dalton Citizen, a newspaper in North Georgia, wrote in 1925.

It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you're perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you're perceived to be alluringly stupid.

The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you."—

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.

Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head.

It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos-

Now Connie seemed to be suggesting that what made people complain about stupidity was their own stupidity.

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

When I learned about this, I was told that it was "instinct." ("Instinct" continues to be the explanation of choice whenever animal behavior implies too much intelligence.) Instinct, though, wouldn't go very far in explaining how pigeons use human transportation routes to navigate. Pigeons follow highways and take particular exits, likely following many of the same landmarks as the humans driving below.